'Sopranos' prequel 'Many Saints of Newark’ drops first trailer. The prequel to the HBO series focuses on the early years of Tony Soprano and his close relationship with Dickie Moltisanti. The legendary mob boss from "The Sopranos" is back in "The Many Saints of Newark," a prequel to the HBO series that focuses on the early years of Tony and his close relationship with Dickie Moltisanti, the father of Michael Imperioli’s Christopher Moltisanti. Tony, or at least his teenage iteration, is front-and-center in a new trailer for "The Many Saints of Newark," which dropped on Tuesday. And he’s played by Michael Gandolfini, the son of the late "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini, who died in 2013. The two-minute and change trailer begins with James Gandolfini’s narration as his younger self demonstrates Tony’s hair-trigger temper by beating up a friend. "When I was a kid, guys like me were brought up to follow codes," the older Tony intones. Check out the link to read more about this.