![]() ![]() “The whole thing had a surreal feeling,” he recalled, remembering a night drinking with Keaton, after filming a scene. Early in the process, even Pacino was skeptical. Many at Paramount wanted to can the director. ![]() “I said, ‘If I can’t even talk about him, what am I supposed to do?’ Fred Roos, who was involved in all of the casting, said, ‘All right, if Marlon will do a screen test, will do it for nothing, and will put up a million-dollar bond that he won’t cause trouble during the production, you can have him.’ And I said, ‘I accept.’”Įven when filming had started, Coppola’s problems were only beginning. “After that I fell on the floor in a faint,” Coppola said. Executives were adamant that casting Brando wouldn’t be “commercially beneficial”, at one point even forbidding Coppola from even bringing up Brando’s name. “I was trying to figure out where I could go with it.”Įven casting Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone, the Godfather himself, was a headache. “I used to live 90th and Broadway and used to walk to the Village and back everyday and I did it thinking about this role,” he said. When Pacino got the part, he considered it at length. “His girlfriend came on the phone and I said, ‘I just need Al to come in one more time’ and she said, ‘What are you doing to him? You’re torturing him!’ She yelled at me and berated me.” ![]() “Once I called after he had tested six times,” Coppola remembered. “Without Francis, where would I be?” said Pacino, remembering how Paramount fought to cast someone else as the infamous Michael Corleone, a career-defining role for which Pacino would eventually collect two Oscar nominations. The event lasted a whopping nine hours, as fans watched restored versions of The Godfather I and II, followed by a panel discussion moderated by director Taylor Hackford, the theme being how difficult it was to get the classic made.Īccording to Coppola, he ran into roadblocks at every turn, as studio Paramount looked simply to cash in with a quickie movie based on Mario Puzo’s runaway bestselling novel. ![]()
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