Summary: Alik Sakharov, ASC, the main director of photography on HBO’s The Sopranos, has revealed that the show’s controversial ending was partly inspired by the mindbending climax of Stanley Kubrick’s metaphysical space opera 2001: A Space Odyssey — an homage he planned carefully with the show’s creator, David Chase. “We talked about 2001 quite a bit,” Sakharov says in an exclusive, hour-long podcast that can be heard by clicking on the accompanying link. In a wide-ranging interview with Stephen Pizzello, executive editor of American Cinematographer magazine, Sakharov reveals other secrets about the show’s final scene and offers an in-depth overview of his work on the series.
