Neil Fujita for the novel’s release) with Puzo’s name above the title for the movie release, but Coppola insisted on keeping it because Puzo co-wrote the script with him. The studio originally wanted to scrap the now-iconic “puppet strings” logo (which was first created by graphic designer S. Coppola was reportedly getting the ax until he shot the scene where Michael kills Sollozzo and McCluskey, which the executives saw and loved. The studio wanted a more salacious gangster movie, so it constantly threatened to fire Coppola (even going so far as to have stand-in directors waiting on set). And after filming began, executives didn’t like the brooding, talky drama that Coppola was shooting.
Elia Kazan, Arthur Penn, Richard Brooks, and Costa-Gavras all turned the job down.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA WAS AT RISK OF BEING FIRED DURING PRODUCTION.įrancis Ford Coppola (who got the job because of his previous movie, The Rain People) wasn’t the first director Paramount Pictures had in mind for The Godfather. Leave the gun, take these facts about Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece adaptation of Mario Puzo’s gangster novel, which premiered in New York City 46 years ago (on March 15, 1972).ġ.
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