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The Sopranos creator David Chase is returning to HBO to develop a miniseries about the invention of cinema and how it lead to the growth of the Hollywood film industry, HBO has announced.
Chase will write, executive produce and direct the initial episodes of A Ribbon of Dreams, which starts in 1913 and follows two men — one a mechanical engineer and the other a cowboy with a violent past. The unlikely duo form a partnership and become pioneers and later on powers to reckon with in motion pictures.
The miniseries will follow the two characters as they begin as employees of D.W. Griffith and eventually cross the paths of the careers of John Ford, John Wayne, Raoul Walsh, Bette Davis, Billy Wilder and others who helped shape Hollywood through the different eras to its present-day form.
The name “A Ribbon of Dreams” is from Orson Welles’ description: “A film is a ribbon of dreams.”