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Today, The Godfather Trilogy.
In 1970, Francis Ford Coppola was just fresh off of directing The Rain People (1969) and had co-penned the script for Franklin J. Schaffner’s Patton – for which he was soon to be anointed with an Oscar – when the opportunity of a lifetime was offered to him. Paramount Pictures was in the process of adapting a Mario Puzo novel that had hit the bestseller lists the year prior and was a hot property for the studio, which was reeling from the expensive box office misfires in Paint Your Wagon (1969), Darling Lili (1970), Waterloo (also 1970) and the studio’s previous attempt at a gangster film, Martin Ritt’s The Brotherhood (1968); however, Sergio Leone, Peter Bogdanovich, Costa-Gavras, Elia Kazan, Otto Preminger, Richard Brooks, Arthur Penn and Peter Yates all passed on the project. When the studio announced Coppola as the director in September of 1970, the saga of The Godfather and its subsequent sequels was set in motion. Paramount has revisited all...
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