The Sopranos film “The Many Saints of Newark" will be released on Sept. 25, 2020, Deadline reports.

The film, co-written by “Sopranos” creator David Chase and Lawrence Konner, serves as a prequel to the TV series and is reportedly set in the 1960s during Tony Soprano’s childhood, circa the time of the Newark riots. “Sopranos” (and “Game of Thrones”) alum Alan Taylor is directing the movie for New Line.

An earlier report from Deadline asserted that the movie’s named had been changed to “Newark,” but that information was incorrect.

The cast of “The Many Saints of Newark” will feature 19-year-old Michael Gandolfini, James Gandolfini’s son, as a young Tony. Alessandro Nivola will play Dickey/Dickie Moltisanti, father to Christopher Moltisanti, who serves as a mentor to young Tony. Moltisanti translates to “many saints.”

Vera Farmiga (“Up in the Air," “The Departed"), who grew up in Essex County — in a Ukrainian enclave in Irvington, attending school in Newark — and went to Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, is set to play a role in the film, though that role is unknown. So will Ray Liotta, who grew up in Union Township. This will be his first role in the Mafia space since “Killing Them Softly” in 2012 and “GoodFellas” in 1990.

Jon Bernthal (“The Punisher”), Corey Stoll (“First Man,” “The Romanoffs”) and Billy Magnussen (“Aladdin,” “Velvet Buzzsaw”) are also attached to the film in unknown roles. So is John Magaro (“The Big Short," “The Umbrella Academy"), who starred in Chase’s 2012 film “Not Fade Away.”

“The Sopranos," which bowed in 2007, featured a series of flashbacks to Tony’s childhood that included younger versions of his mother, Livia, along with his father, Johnny Boy Soprano, and his uncle, Junior Soprano.

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