The director cast his daughter Sofia Coppola, as Mary, the daughter of Michael Corleone and Kay Adam.īut Coppola wasn’t powerful enough to command more time to do the post-production editing required. Winona Ryder dropped out of the film after her first day of shooting, citing nervous exhaustion. Robert Duvall balked at reprising his role as consigliere Tom Hagen after he heard how much Pacino was getting paid. At one point, the studio approached Sylvester Stallone to direct Godfather III.Ĭompounding the troubled production, casting problems led to rushed replacements. Even the success of Peggy Sue Got Married failed to win Paramount over to Coppola’s side. The box office promise Coppola brought the studio in the 1970s petered out in the ’80s as films like One from the Heart, Rumble Fish, The Cotton Club, Gardens of Stone, and Tucker: A Man and His Dream all failed to score with mass audiences. Paramount Pictures might have thought Coppola deserved the shoddy treatment. As Marlon Brando’s Vito Corleone asked funeral director Amerigo Bonasera in the opening scene of The Godfather, “What did I ever do to make you treat me with such disrespect?” Once Coppola and the novel’s author Mario Puzo sent in the completed screenplay, written under a rushed deadline, the studio told the director to have the final cut ready in one year. The studio would eventually reward the director by further limiting his ability to complete his vision.Īhead of agreeing to do a third film, Paramount wanted Coppola to continue the epic immigrant family saga in time for a Christmas 1990 theatrical release. The Godfather: Part II was the first movie sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was nominated for 11 Oscars and won three. Made on a $6 million budget and completed ahead of schedule, The Godfather was the first film in history to take in a million bucks a day. Nearly 20 years earlier, Coppola had delivered Paramount Pictures two major motion picture achievements, which the director had to fight to maintain his creative control on. The movie has become shorthand to describe cinematic disappointment. Before that The Godfather III had been one of the most anticipated films of all time it wound up being one of the most maligned theatrical releases. Goodfellas, released that same year, only got six nominations. The Godfather: Part III was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. For the 30th anniversary of The Godfather: Part III, the director and screenwriter will release a new edit and restoration of the final film of The Godfather trilogy. And Francis Ford Coppola hopes the new conclusion to the mafia saga takes care of all family business. “Friends, our business together is done,” Al Pacino’s mob family patriarch says in the official trailer for Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone.
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