Luck played a part in the creation of some of the most memorable scenes in the two films.
The film launched his career as one of the most honoured actors of his generation.
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"I thought this is either a dream or a joke.and then started the whole trial of them not wanting me and Francis wanting me," Pacino recalled. Pacino said he originally wanted the part of the hot-headed son, Sonny, and thought Coppola "was really nuts" about wanting him to play Michael.
Yet Coppola persevered because "every time I read the script, I always saw his (Pacino's) face, especially in the scenes in Sicily." Studio bosses though he was too short and wanted to cast Robert Redford or Ryan O'Neal. Newcomer Pacino had to screen test "countless times" for the role of Michael, the college-educated son who takes charge of the Corleone business of casinos, gambling and racketeering. Brando went on to win an Oscar for his performance. They thought he mumbled and they hated the film.It was very dark," said Coppola.
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Coppola recalled that Hollywood studio Paramount wanted to set the movie in the 1970s and make something "cheap and quick." The two films won nine Oscars and their tale of how an orphan from Sicily emigrated to the United States at the turn of the 20th century and formed the Corleone crime family became movie classics.īut the film had a less than auspicious start. I forgot a lot about the making of it and thought about the story, and the story used a lot of family and my personal stuff." "I found (watching) a very emotional experience. "I haven't seen these movies for years," Coppola said. The director and cast of The Godfather reminisced on Saturday in a 45th anniversary reunion in New York about the trials, perseverance and inspiration that resulted in the Oscar-winning Mafia movies.Ĭoppola, Pacino, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, James Caan, Talia Shire and Robert Duvall watched back-to-back screenings of The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part II (1974) along with an audience of 6,000 on the closing night of the Tribeca film festival.
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Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.NEW YORK, April 29 (Reuters) - Al Pacino was considered too short, Marlon Brando was required to do a screen test, and director Francis Ford Coppola was almost fired. We didn’t do more than one or two takes.”Ĭage has earned some of the best reviews of his career for the film, which is currently streaming on Hulu. “I knew I had the life experience, the dreams, the imagination, to be able to be Rob without forcing it. “I had the luxury of them, Michael and Vanessa, writing just a script that sung to me,” Cage said. Though his ploy didn’t work out, Cage had previously worked with his uncle on 1986’s “Peggy Sue Got Married,” starring Kathleen Turner.Ĭage joined the roundtable to discuss his performance in 2021’s “Pig,” directed by first-time filmmaker Michael Sarnoski. Garcia was ultimately cast as Vincent, the illegitimate son of James Caan’s Sonny, in Coppola’s 1990 film, and went on to earn an Academy Award nomination for his performance. 'Bridgerton' Season 2: Everything You Need to Know About the Netflix Hit Scorsese, del Toro, Coppola, and More Remember Peter Bogdanovich 'The Conversation': Walter Murch Invented a Paranoid Soundscape for Coppola's Masterpiece So that was a movie I didn’t get let in that I really wanted to be in. I just feel a little more James Caan.’ It just wasn’t going to happen. I think I could play this part.’ He was going to cast Andy Garcia, and I said, ‘But I just see myself more as James Caan’s son, and he’s playing Sonny’s son.
I really think it’s a good idea if you would cast me. “So Uncle was doing ‘Godfather III,’ and I said, ‘I really think I ought to be in your movie, Uncle. “This is a very embarrassing answer to your question, OK, because it involves family,” he said. In response to a question about a film they would want to make that no one would let them, Cage chimed in with a story from his past involving his uncle, Francis Ford Coppola, and the final installment of “The Godfather” trilogy. In a roundtable interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Cage joined fellow actors Peter Dinklage, Andrew Garfield, Jonathan Majors, and Simon Rex to discuss their 2021 films. Nicolas Cage may be part of a Hollywood filmmaking dynasty, but that doesn’t mean he’s received any special favors over the course of his career, even when he specifically asks for them.