David Chase has set up his next series project at HBO — one that’s a world away from The Sopranos .

Chase has optioned John Lisle’s nonfiction book Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA to adapt as a limited series. The drama, titled Project: MKUltra , is in development at the premium outlet. Should it go to series, it will be Chase’s first HBO effort since The Many Saints of Newark , a Sopranos prequel film that debuted on HBO Max at the same time as its theatrical release in 2021.

HBO describes Project: MKUltra as “a dramatic thriller centered on the infamous chemist and spymaster Sidney Gottlieb, often known as The Black Sorcerer, who headed the CIA’s MKUltra Psychedelic program which conducted dangerous and deadly mind control exper

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