Sopranos Creator David Chase Developing CIA MKUltra Thriller Series

David Chase is returning to HBO to develop Project: MKUltra, a limited espionage thriller adapted from John Lisle’s nonfiction book about Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA’s Cold War MKUltra program. The series will center on Gottlieb — dubbed the “Black Sorcerer” — who led covert experiments using LSD, hypnosis and other methods on willing and unwilling subjects, many of which were dangerous or deadly. Chase will write and executive-produce the adaptation through his Riverain Pictures alongside producer Nicole Lambert, under his HBO first-look arrangement, and the project is currently in development. If it proceeds, Project: MKUltra would be Chase’s first television series since The Sopranos; he is also reported to be working on other projects, including an untitled horror film with Sopranos collaborator Terence Winter.