The movie is about one thing.

It's about the classic American fantasy or myth that you can reinvent yourself,

that you can change your destiny, that you don't have to be who you are told you are.

Every character in the movie is trying to change who they are.

Every character is trying to rewrite their story, and everybody fails because us for another episode of the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Director's Guild of America.

Today's episode takes us behind the scenes of director Alan Taylor's new mobster drama,

The Many Saints of Newark.

A prequel to the award-winning television series The Sopranos,

the film follows a young Tony Soprano as he grows up in one of the most tumultuous eras in New Jersey history.

As he idolizes his uncle, Dickie Maltesanti,

we see how the relationship influences his adolescence

and contributes to his transformation into the all-powerful mob boss he will someday become.

In addition to the Many Saints of Newark,

Mr. Taylor's directorial credits include the feature

films Terminator Genesis and Thor the Dark World, and episodes of the television series

Deadwood, The Sopranos, and Sex in the City, and the pilot for the Playboy Club.

He was nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series

for episodes of Game of Thrones and Mad Men, and won the 2007 award in that category

for his Mad Men pilot episode, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.

Following a recent screening of the film at the DGA Theater in New York, Mr. Taylor spoke

with fellow director Greg Matola about filming

the Many Saints of Newark. Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.

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