Three months after his notorious blackout farewell from The Sopranos, actor James Gandolfini will return to Home Box Office (HBO) with a documentary about wounded US veterans of the Iraq war.
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq will debut on the cable TV channel on September 9.
It will featuring Gandolfini's interviews with 10 American GIs, recounting their experiences in surviving close brushes with death on the battlefield.
The documentary, for which the Sopranos star was the executive producer, marks the first project from his Attaboy Films production company, HBO says.
The title of the film comes from a phrase adopted by many wounded Iraq war veterans referring to the day they narrowly survived a combat injury, often with horrific wounds that leave them permanently disabled.
Gandolfini, 45, who has visited US troops in Iraq on behalf of the USO, produced the film from a series of in-studio interviews with Iraq war vets earlier this year, discussing "their feelings on their future, their severe disabilities and their devotion to America," HBO says.
Life after 'The Sopranos'
The burly actor is best known for his award-winning portrayal of Tony Soprano, a conflicted New Jersey mob boss and family man, on HBO's acclaimed gangster drama The Sopranos.
The show concluded its eight year, six season run last week with a final episode that strongly suggested Tony was about to be murdered before abruptly ending mid-scene, cutting from a shot of Gandolfini's face to a blank screen.
The unorthodox, fill-in-the-blank finale left many viewers convinced something had gone wrong with their cable TV reception and triggered a torrent of debate by fans and critics.
Gandolfini's next acting role is expected to be a feature film portrait as Ernest Hemingway in a story centred on the writer's tempestuous romance with war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, who became the novelist's third wife.
Last year he appeared in a remake of All the King's Men that bombed with critics and the box office. © 2007 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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