The reason "Many Saints" was awful is because it's a story told by Christopher Moltisanti -- we already knew he was a bad scriptwriter so the movie stayed true to that fact. Lol

My estimation of Christopher Moltisanti as a baby just fucking plummeted. To cry like a woman !!

I am just going to head canon that the whole movie was a dope withdrawl fever dream Christopher had.

If I had to rewrite young Tony and baby Christopher's interaction in the movie, Chrissy wouldn't be scared of Tony and reaches up to grab and squeeze Tonys nose that Tony finds amusing, just to tie in how he ended up ironically killing Christopher that way

Just when Kino thought he was out. They pulled him back in!

A lot of it is fixed by Dickie actually being a drug addict. Better justification for the Italian girl cheating on him, and a better justification for Junior having him popped.

Don't forget about the inconsistencies with the characters' age. Paulie stated to Silvio "I go back to this family to John. Before you even!" And Tony also stated in the Happy Wanderer how Junior used to chase him and Silvio when they were kids. So how is Silvio almost as old as young Paulie in this film? And Tony was a kid during the riots 🤣

I thought Sally Moltisanti was the wisest character in the Sopranos-verse. He went to jail and became a book nerd put the life behind him and used that time behind bars to better himself. But what do I know he’s a murderer

Usually when content creators try to "fix" movies it reads like some nonsense christopher would write. But this is actually really really good and is my new headcanon.

David Chase (struggling for ideas): “You gotta help me.” Pure Kino: “I’ll fuckin’ help you!!!”

Honestly this version of the movie would be perfect. You gave every character an interesting and fleshed out arc and tied them all together using historical figures and details from the show and the actual Newark riots. I also think “not thinking before acting” is a great central theme for Dickie and could be shown in more details and could even connect to some of Tony’s habits later on. The pace also seems like it would flow nicely and keep the movie building at an entertaining rate to a thrilling climax. Overall amazing work 🙏. I swear this channel makes me wanna drop my current major and study film 😂😂

I look forward to hearing about your changes. Personally I thought Dickie was going to be a junkie, an addict and became a rat. That would explain Tony's concern for Chris when he went to rehab in season 4. Then a soprano would clip Dickie.

One of my biggest letdowns from the many saints of Newark is that Joey Diaz didn't play fat fucking Jerry Anastasia who used kill Tony at benihana's with all the tabs he picked up ovah the years!

Honestly your video made me realize how flawed the movie was. I enjoyed it a lot, but your version is much more cohesive and sensible. You included smarter references to the show than shitty one-liners, while still maintaining the spirit of a new story. Good work as always!

The Junior/Dickie dynamic was my favorite part of this re-write. Actually adding layers to their feud makes the ending with Dickie's death so much more fleshed out.

Kino never had the makings of a varsity writer

I'm a "Sopranos can do no wrong" kinda guy, but I gotta say, what you're layin' down here is vastly superior...and I'm only on act one!

My estimation of Kino as a man, just fuckin skyrocketed

This movie should’ve just been entirely about Tony and Dickies relationship. Show Tony’s perspective, show dickies perspective then have them come together. And just have it go back and fourth until Dickie gets whacked by uncle junior. Idk why Harold was so prominent in this movie.

I was trying to find some constructive criticism, but honestly this is so much more engaging and coherent; I can’t find anything I don’t like. Anthony Imperiale is such a clever figure to use. Not only does he link the varying movie storylines, but characters from the show too, and in a meaningful way. Good job Kino, this might be your best work yet.

Hugh being 15-16 during the end of WW2 some what makes sense. There have been stories of many drafties being younger than 18

It didn’t have Ralph in it, the most insulting omission. they need a good actor to play him, or Deepfake and de-age Joey Pantalone or at least him him overdub the dialogue. that alone would make it worth watching. I HAVE COME TO RECLAIM ROME FOR MY PEOPLE!

How much more betrayal can I take

Just a small critique. You have Harold realizing that Dickie shot his friend like 3 times. Otherwise it was really good.

To me the film feels like the first part of a trilogy! It would have made a much better miniseries actually

This is my first time on this channel and honestly, I feel like David Chase should hire you for the series being produced right now. I couldn’t find any flaw in your re-write and it all made SO MUCH MORE SENSE. I feel like I just re-watched The Many Saints of Newark in the way it was supposed to be. Can we just scrap the one that came out and restart with you in the Director’s chair?

Dude this is amazing. I can feel the care and thought that went into this. Thank you, keep up the great work.

The thing I "hated" the most about this movie were the stupid refrences of characters that made no sense whatsoever. Along with the age gaps (Silvio and tony) for example. Also really like this rewrite you did here, I like the politic plot a lot.

we need to get kino on this prequel series.

Pure Kino... this is pure gold. Very very well done. I agree with other comments, your improved storyline highlights the issues with "Many Saints" and ties everything together really well. We appreciate the hard work! Thank you.

A thousand times better. You should send this to David Chase.

Without a doubt THIS is how the film should've gone down. Excellent job.

This movie makes sense when you realize Chase wrote it. He rode the laurels of other writers in the show.

let's pretend this movie never happened

Chase was injecting some good dope when he wrote the original script. I love this version.

As much as I enjoyed the film, I think your pitch sounds like a much more complete story, as both a standalone crime film and a prequel to The Sopranos. Seriously, great job. One thing from Many Saints I would keep is Giuseppina. Though in this version, she'd be an immigrant who Dickie stumbles upon and tries to put through school as a 'good deed' to ease his consciensce, but eventually begins sleeping with and gets her addicted to heroin, resulting in her overdose that causes Dickie to plummet into depression and guilt near the end of the film.

Very good fix, you combined the original with the prequel and stuck to history of the riots. You also brought in the addiction aspect of Dickie, which Christopher was so pissed off about at the party at his house. Great fix 👍

In the early seasons it seems like Silvio is much older than Tony/Jackie Sr./Ralphie. And Tony refers to Silvio as "no spring chicken." Says he is getting "strange in his old age"

Did Junior violate Mafia rules by ordering Dicky's murder?

The Harold subplot was fucking unnecessary and horrible

I would also set up the possibility of Eckley, Johnny Boy, and Tony killing Dickie.

I think you might've put more work into this than the actual screenwriters, lol. I'd love to see your version as a movie, though I suspect it might be hard to fit all that context into a standard film runtime

I would say that was definitely a lottt more solid Kino! It'd be interesting filming the scene where Dickie loses it and starts the riot, I think that would be challenging to film, but is doable. As an important scene you'd have to nail showing the crowd escalation and Dickie's flip from cool wise guy to raging mobster monster. I still feel like Junior should have had more of a specific final trigger in deciding to kill Dickie, than just a laugh after a slip and fall. Definitely something a writer would flesh out. The slip and fall embarrassment to murder of a made man just doesn't work for me as this is. And why wouldn't the crew potentially think it's Harold that got Dickie? Despite what Junior says about Jilly Ruffalo. Also I wish there was at least one touch of the supernatural in this all to really capture the Sopranos spirit. Like the house from Tony's dreams and coma. But all in all a great "How they should have done it"!

This is an absolute masterpiece by you sir. I had my hesitations, especially with you keeping in Harold. However you used him perfectly. Bravo!! This is what this movie should’ve have been!!

I wish this movie went into Dickey's drug use since that's such a core component of who Christopher is and Dickies backstory yet they never go into it

I like ur rewrite of this, good structure, balance of the show and new, and a mix historical view points and different characters, which makes it interesting 👍 good work

Saints of Newark gets a pass for a couple three reasons- 1 everything covid era released has been garbage 2 it’s sopranos, you are supposed to hate it for a bit 3 *redacted via youtube*

When you said "Artie runs" you so should have used the clip from the Christopher Columbus episode lol

Bro, I love your movie version. The parallels and the flow of the story, it's clean and straight to the point. I hope someday they remake it just like the version you presented. 10/10 Pal

I'd pay to see your version, honestly! You did some great work here, buddy!!

Wow someone really should have hired Purekino for this film, extremely well done 👌🏻

I thought you were gonna rewrite it into a Richie Aprille origin story 😯😅🤣

This would be so cool! If only it didn’t cost so much to either produce or animate!

12:49 is when you had me. Quite impressive the depth you've explored with the characters from the show in a meaningful way!

I like that in your version there are so many call backs to existing characters; i was really hoping to see that in this movie, even if was just going to be small cameos

I would’ve kept the scene where Tony calls Dickie and beats up Jackie cos it fits in

Not really talked about sopranos fact Jackie Aprile was 44 in 1998 but tony was 39 idk if it's just me but I just think that's a bit far in age to be childhood friends

Bravo, Kino! You have weaved your vast knowledge of the original series into a uniquely creative screenplay. Your well-presented story is engaging, and tastefully carries the soul of the Sopranos, as a Prequel I would line up to see.

I like this, a lot. I'm pretty impressed lol Nice work. I always took the fact that Zelman and Maurice said they renounced violence to mean they advocated violent revolution, like many revolutionary organizations of the time, not that they necessarily used it. But I like this version too 👍 I'd just add too that Anthony Imperiali was a controversial figure even back then and probably no more so than among Italians and Sicilians. At this point (and to some degree still today, like with a lot of my family) Southern Italians and Sicilians didn't/don't consider themselves as "white" (Michael Imperioli even said this in a Talking Sopranos episode and his family was from a totally different area, so this is clearly not uncommon and even less so back then) so "Keep Newark White" wouldn't be much of a rallying call for em. I know most of my family would have opposed him and they wouldn't have been alone. I'm "mixed" Sicilian and black because when my family came over they went south to escape the bs of the City and ended up subject to Jim Crow Laws and lived, worked, and socialized with the kids of former slaves sharecropping til they ran back to NYC and lived in mixed areas of immigrants and southern black folks. This wasn't all that long before this era. It's mad complicated and most people don't seem to really understand it, but I am living proof that Anthony Imperiali types were not the norm and didn't have anything like widespread support. Unfortunately the situation was bad for a lotta our relatives that came over and some chose to sell out their culture to assimilate and in doing so were some of the loudest bigots around to gain acceptance from the "white" majority. But not all did. And sadly the ones that refused to do so get erased more often than not. Also, Zelman is a Jewish civil rights guy, not sure why he'd intern for Imperiali? Or if Imperiali would even have him?

I still can't believe they didn't show feech get robbed

This Kino kid is more creative than Spielberg. Great vid bro. U got a new subscriber.

Kino. You should review Dune. Become the HBO reviewer. Theres so much content on HBO just waiting for you to break down and review. The throne is yours

Even as you call it an imperfect version of the movie.. It beats the hell outta what Chase wrote, he's left a thousand holes.. While being way out side the way we'd pictured it playing out from the show.. At least yours puts the parts of the show & movie together!! Well played sir, well played indeed!!

This Movie isn’t a “bad” movie, It’s just that we hold The Sopranos to sucha high standard. I still think considering how many “Main Plots” this movie had it’d be better as a mini-series

The movie should have been much longer. Your re-write was spot on.

This movie rewrite captures everything about Sopranos, even the black glorification intentional or not, it's an overlooked part of the show.

Not a bad rewrite! I can't think of any specific ideas for this movie, probably because the whole thing felt unnecessary. I would have loved Chase making a prequel film (I really love his movie 'Not Fade Away') but that's not what we got. I don't see how a movie that incorporates a black narrative can relate to The Sopranos, a series that for 7 years lacked a black central character. This movie needed to just be about Tony and Dickie EDIT: I just couldn't buy the the Junior I know never hinted that he killed the father of his nephew's protege whom he interacted with constantly

WOW! You totally fixed it! This would have been great to see and it makes way more sense the way it connects. The only thing I would add is a little more Tony. Great job!

You have made new video again. Thank you!

The intro was very similar to the intro to Pet Cemetary (Stephen King). Very allegorical.

I think we all should have known no matter what story was being told, it was never going to work as long as it was in movie format. What made Sopranos so good was the quiet and ordinary moments and you just don't have time for that in a movie like you do a TV show. The Sopranos had unfocused plot lines but it didn't matter because that wasn't the most important part of the show. But in a movie, what happens is everything.

The Sopranos series gave me the impression that Zellman was a liberal. So, I couldn't picture him interning for a racist like Imperiale.

'this might be a little on the nose' I see what you did there 😂

I liked it but it made me a bit mad that I have been waiting year's for THIS

10.51 in and I’m already sold on your version. Silvio pushed me over the edge.

I like how your version puts a lot of the different pieces together, which was missing from the original movie. WhIle I was watching the scene where Dickie is disposing his father's body, I was expecting him to dump him in the middle of the riots and make it look like he had been murdered by the african american protesters, which would then escalate the conflict between them and the italian americans. It could have also added some more depth to the film as it would give the opportunity to explore how Dickie deals with being responsible for escalating a tension between the two groups. At least even a small change such as that could have brought the storylines together a bit more.

Outstanding analysis. Big congratulations.

bro really wrote a full length movie to honor the “Christopher” episode

I can't take the betrayal

I remember when Kino used to wait in the car. And as far as I'm concerned, he should still be there!

🤯 Kino, I'm not all the way through this video yet. But I've already decided your revised story is the one I will consider to be correct. Outstanding! 👏👏👏👏

It's a revenge fantasy.

Tbh a big change I'd do to the og movie is if silvio wasnt in it and paulie did all the dialogue that silvio did

The show always teased us with flashbacks of young Tony watching his dad and Junior hatching schemes and getting into trouble. I always thought that if they were going to make a sequel they would explore the early life and world of Junior and "Johnny Boy". I think most fans would have been satisfied watching their relationship with the Aprile family and a young Richie who was probably one of the most captivating of all the bad guys on the Sopranos. Creating a whole other universe with the largely unexplored Moltisanti family was disappointing and a bit of a letdown.

Excellent work! Thanks to you, I now understand this movie. You make it “ flow”. You also piqued my curiosity about the real history of Newark during that era. I am currently doing research on it . I believe that your talents and insight has opened the door to deeper analysis and appreciation for this film. 👍

I'm not even halfway into this and this is the film I want to see.

I know I'm late for this party but I've only just seen this right now, and I have to say this story would've given the movie much more of an actual point, and also sounds a lot more entertaining and engaging. The only things the actual movie gave us was some great performances, and somewhat showed that the ball that Harold got rolling eventually resulted in the broken down, drug addled ghetto sides of Newark that we saw in the show. It also kinda showed the beginnings of the decline of the mafia, and that it was Junior who killed Dickie. So it was basically illustrating the same point the show already did, that organized crime in general is nothing but a f'd up and parasitical virus orchestrated by a bunch of greedy, neurotic, sociopathic f'k ups. I somewhat liked it at first (I think because of the main performances) but second time it fell totally flat with me. This story however, sounds like a well thought out Scorsesean saga of the show's historical past that could also stand alone as it's own thing, and something that would've better stood up to further scrutiny upon multiple viewings.

Chase cant help himself. He has to try to be artsy in the sense that continuity means nothing to him haha. I think the mixed message with the African American gangsters and the Italians pissed me off the most. Chase spent like decades saying crime doesn't pay and they are bad people.. then ends his movie with a heroic move to the Burbs for Harold. Just my opinion but yeah. I agree that Dickie didn't seem right. He wasn't an addict and I didn't understand if he had mental issues or not. But yeah - your Ideas are great.

I've heard the 'unfocused' reaction. You have pulled it together perfectly. Chase should hire you to do it to the film: 2.0.

There could have been that shit with the Columbians or Old man Baccala being the Terminator but we got Harold and a def jam poetry session.

Wow ten minutes into this video and it’s already ALL BETTER. Damn bro THIS was the movie we needed… htf did Chase wind up with what we got??? This version here seems not just perfect but SO OBVIOUS.

Kino, this might be your best work yet. I didn't expect to watch it start to finish... and now I wish this were the real movie. It actually would have been great.

Love what you did here. Creative!!

I love the way you handle this screenplay and it shows you have excellent knowledge of the show and pull it all together. One thing that I think they should have done regarding JR and Dickie is have the conlfict intensify when Dickie insults JR at the executive card game - In season 2 Tony has a talk with JR about the card game and I believe JR used to be the guy who hosted it (kind of like Feech Lamana tried to in Season 5). This would be an excellent way to justify JR going as far as to kill Dickie later on - insulting him in front of some throwback celebrities (you could have someone representing some past famouse personalities in the scene too) as well as a number of "family" who were skipped over in the realased version of htis but could be briefly represented in this scene. A very important part of this scene would be having a much younger silvio (who would be called sil or his name quickly in the scene as a method of clever exposition) he would have a very brief appearance and i would get rid of his later scenes alltogher. Another great thing about this scene would be that Silvio would be essentially the "cheese f****" (Matthew Bebalakwa) Im not even trying to spell anything so please forgive me. This would be a nice touch - subtile -- its a memorable season 2 scene and this would be easily identified by audiences as a nod to Silvio's behavior in the scene and his character developement we didnt get to see too much of in Sopranos. I think that scene would have worked exceptionally if done right. After all JR used to run the game - it would even add to the Sopranos season 2 scene where they have a talk in the drs office about it. But you really nailed this - great creative vision you have.

Where’s this movie Kino cause this would have been sooo much better!!

this movie; i feel like I've stabbed in the heart

Simply put, good job buddy!

If I live to be a billion I still won’t have any idea why Frank Lucas was in this movie.

I thought your version was much better than the movie, but I would also make it so that Dickie and Harold were childhood friends like in the movie, so that there's more emotional weight to their conflict

Your re-edit is fantastic! My only problem is that Michela De Rossi was one of the best parts of the version of the movie that was released and it sucks that you don’t have a part for her here!