Related: Why The Godfather 3 Is So Badly RegardedĪnthony Ippolito as Al Pacino - Handpicked by Francis Ford Coppola to play Michael Corleone, Pacino's casting met with harsh resistance at Paramount. Garretson appeared in Prodigal Son, Fosse/Verdon, and Resident Alien. MacGraw was then cast in The Getaway and left Evans for her co-star, Steve McQueen. Meredith Garretson as Ali MacGraw - Ali MacGraw became a superstar when she starred in Love Story opposite Ryan O'Neal, which was produced by her husband Robert Evans. Alex Karev in Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice. Fans hoping to see a lot of Brando will be disappointed as The Offer cast member Chambers only appears in four episodes. At the time The Godfather went into production, Brando was considered one of the greatest actors alive, but his career was on the decline because of his reputation for being notoriously difficult to work with. Justin Chambers as Marlon Brando - Marlon Brando played Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather, which won Brando the Academy Award for Best Actor. The Offer cast had a lot of pressure to bring the real-life players to the screen. How Ruddy got mobster Joe Colombo on his side is one of the many tales in The Offer.

The Godfather novel was controversial with the Italian-American community and New York mobsters prevented the production from filming in the city. Coppola and Puzo collaborated on the screenplay while Ruddy and Evans dealt with the major hurdle of filming in New York City. Coppola, who was also favored for the directing gig because he was Italian, initially balked at the offer, but he accepted the job to get out of debt. After several notable directors turned the project down, Evans and Ruddy hired Francis Ford Coppola, who was nominated for an Academy Award as the co-writer of Patton, to both write and direct. Ruddy as the producer of the movie adaptation, which the troubled studio desperately banked on to be a hit. Based on the best-selling novel by Mario Puzo, Paramount Pictures' head of production Robert Evans tapped Albert S. The making of The Godfather is almost as famous as the film itself.

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