‘The Sopranos’ Creator David Chase Returns to HBO with New Limited Series – Here Are the Details

David Chase, the creator of The Sopranos, is returning to HBO with a new limited series called Project: MKUltra. The series will explore one of the darkest chapters in CIA history and will be Chase’s first major project since his acclaimed mob drama.

The show will be based on the nonfiction book Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKUltra by John Lisle.

Chase has secured the rights to the book and will write the adaptation himself under his company Riverain Pictures’ first-look deal with HBO. Nicole Lambert, who is Head of Production and Development at Riverain, will executive produce the series alongside Chase.

Project: MKUltra will focus on Sidney Gottlieb, the chemist and CIA spymaster often called The Black Sorcerer, according to Deadline. He led the CIA’s MKUltra program, a secret project in the 1950s and ’60s that experimented with mind control using drugs, hypnosis, and other extreme methods.

Many of these experiments were conducted without the consent of the subjects, some of whom were seriously harmed. Gottlieb is also remembered as a key figure in the unintended spread of LSD in American culture.

According to sources, the series will be a dramatic thriller, showing both the shadowy work of the CIA during the Cold War and the personal story of Gottlieb. The MKUltra program aimed to counter supposed Soviet and Chinese advances in brainwashing, but its methods were often brutal and unethical.

David Chase is no stranger to television acclaim. He has won seven Emmy Awards, five of them for The Sopranos, including two for Outstanding Drama Series. His return to HBO with Project: MKUltra is highly anticipated, and fans are eager to see how he tackles a real-life story filled with danger, secrecy, and moral complexity.

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