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Gandolfini Ices HBO Deal
Yes, it was an offer he couldn't refuse.
Thanks to his Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning work as New Jersey's top mobster on The Sopranos, James Gandolfini has been given a three-year development deal with the pay cable network that will keep him in the fold after he retires his famous alter ego next spring.
"The Sopranos is a landmark in TV, and the gifted James Gandolfini is one of the reasons for the show's remarkable success," HBO chairman and CEO Chris Albrect said in a statement. "I'm delighted that he will continue to work with the network after the end of the series."
The pact grants Gandolfini the power to create and produce original film and TV projects exclusively for HBO and its specialty film distribution arm, Picturehouse. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The news comes just as the 44-year-old actor launched his own production shingle, Attaboy Films, with ex-Paramount Pictures executive Alex Ryan.
The twosome is currently supervising development on Hemingway, a biopic on the late author to be directed by Philip Kaufman (The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Right Stuff) from a script by Barbara Turner (Pollock).
Gandolfini will shed the Joisey accent and don a gray beard as he takes on the role of the hard-living novelist in the feature film chronicling Hemingway's stormy marriage to his third wife, war correspondent Martha Gellhorn. The film will likely shoot early next year, but no date has been set.
Attaboy is also producing Occupation Iraq, following a group of U.S. soldiers in the war, for HBO Documentary Films.
Additionally, the new agreement calls for the company to develop two TV pilots for the cable channel.
Gandolfini, meanwhile, is preparing to get back to work next week on The Sopranos. The small-screen goodfella has recovered from knee surgery that forced HBO to delay the start of production for the series' final eight episodes and reschedule the premiere date from Jan. 7. Tony and his crew most likely won't return to the airwaves until late February or early March. In the meantime, he and his goombahs are lending their voices to Sopranos: The Road to Respect, a videogame for PlayStation 2 due out in November. A version for the Xbox 360 will hit stores in early 2007.
Aside from his work as the neurotic don--a role that's earned him three Emmys, two Screen Actors Guild awards and a Golden Globe--Gandolfini has appeared in such films as True Romance Get Shorty, Crimson Tide and The Juror. More recently he has starred in The Man Who Wasn't There, The Last Castle and Surviving Christmas.Gandolfini next appears in theaters opposite Sean Penn, Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet and Patricia Clarkson in Steven Zaillian's remake of All the King's Men, due out Sept. 22.
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