According to creator David Chase, it nearly happened. According to People, during a panel discussion at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City on Feb. 26, Chase revealed that when he was pitching the show to traditional networks, he had a version that was far less violent than the one that ultimately aired. In fact, he admitted that in the early draft, "nobody got killed."
“Everybody turned it down. But I did a rewrite. See, the first draft that I did, which was for Fox…nobody got killed because it was a network show,” Chase shared. “I thought, ‘I can't have a murder. I can't have somebody…have Tony [Soprano] kill somebody.’ And then they didn't do it.”
Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Lorraine Bracco, James Gandolfini and David Chase (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc)Getty Images
"I rewrote it and I put in a murder, that Chris kills this Czechoslovakian guy, and that then sold,” he shared on the panel.
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"They loved him because Jim had some magic in him, but you saw this damaged heart or something in that character," Steve Schirripa shared with Today, who portrayed Bobby Baccalieri in the series.
“I felt protected by him and loved by him. And he really was one of a kind, and I feel very lucky to have been guided by him for as long as I was," she said.
The Sopranos aired for six seasons from 1999 to 2007, with its final episode delivering one of the most-talked-about endings in television history.
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