The man behind one of television's most acclaimed dramas ever has lined up his next project. David Chase, who createdThe Sopranos, is reuniting with HBO for a new miniseries, called A Ribbon of Dreams. The project is about the creation of Hollywood, and begins in 1913, following two men, a college-educated mechanical engineer, the other a cowboy with a violent past, who form an unlikely producing partnership and together become pioneers and then powers for a time in motion pictures.

Chase will write and executive produce the miniseries, and direct the first episodes. Paramount Pictures chairman and CEO Brad Grey, who executive produced The Sopranos with Chase, will also serve as an executive producer on the miniseries.

The story will follow the two men as they begin as employees of D.W. Griffith, and then cross career paths with John Ford, John Wayne, Raoul Walsh, Bette Davis, Billy Wilder and others.