Sampiro
04-24-2006, 12:35 AM
There are rumors from time to time that one is underway. Coppola has at times said he's considered it and at other times denied it will ever happen, but then he said many times there'd never be a III, and then there was the mixed reviewed authorized sequel/prequel (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345478983/ref=pd_kar_gw_1/102-5408454-2383309?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155) last year. Ultimately it's up to Paramount Studios and Mario Puzo's estate anyway.
So would it be possible? The potential settings would be:
1- the periods not covered between II's flashbacks and the beginning of I (basically the late 1920s through 1941 when Vito expanded and cemented his power)
2- the period between II and III (1957-1979)
3- the period following III (1980-present)
4- (a real long shot) an "all the way back" prequel that deals with the Andolini family in Sicily or a branch of the family that remained there and worked for their kinsman the American Don.
The third scenario (1980 to present) would seem by far the most logical and likely. The only actors avaialable from the first two movies whose characters survived as well would be Connie (Talia Shire) and some of the very minor characters (Johnny Fontanne [Al Martino], Sonny's children, etc.) with the possibility of a Pacino cameo as Michael as a very old sick man (GF3 doesn't say when he died). Andy Garcia is the only major character from 3 who would be logical to bring back.
So, if a movie about the Corleone family in an America where the Mafia is having to go head to head with Russian, Vietnamese and other syndicates feasible perhaps? A fourth movie set post-1980 would have the family essentially totally distanced from Sicily as Vincent would have Sicilian ancestry but no personal sense of roots there (he visited there but was 100% American when he did so- he did not grow up in a bilingual first generation household like his father) and any pretense of glamour and honor from the other movies pretty much gone as the crime becomes nastier and more heroin/meth/protection related (ala Donnie Brasco, Pacino's anti-Michael turn).
Anyway, do you think there's anyway it could be done and be a worthy addition (i.e. better than 3)? What would you suggest by way of plots/charactes/settings?
So would it be possible? The potential settings would be:
1- the periods not covered between II's flashbacks and the beginning of I (basically the late 1920s through 1941 when Vito expanded and cemented his power)
2- the period between II and III (1957-1979)
3- the period following III (1980-present)
4- (a real long shot) an "all the way back" prequel that deals with the Andolini family in Sicily or a branch of the family that remained there and worked for their kinsman the American Don.
The third scenario (1980 to present) would seem by far the most logical and likely. The only actors avaialable from the first two movies whose characters survived as well would be Connie (Talia Shire) and some of the very minor characters (Johnny Fontanne [Al Martino], Sonny's children, etc.) with the possibility of a Pacino cameo as Michael as a very old sick man (GF3 doesn't say when he died). Andy Garcia is the only major character from 3 who would be logical to bring back.
So, if a movie about the Corleone family in an America where the Mafia is having to go head to head with Russian, Vietnamese and other syndicates feasible perhaps? A fourth movie set post-1980 would have the family essentially totally distanced from Sicily as Vincent would have Sicilian ancestry but no personal sense of roots there (he visited there but was 100% American when he did so- he did not grow up in a bilingual first generation household like his father) and any pretense of glamour and honor from the other movies pretty much gone as the crime becomes nastier and more heroin/meth/protection related (ala Donnie Brasco, Pacino's anti-Michael turn).
Anyway, do you think there's anyway it could be done and be a worthy addition (i.e. better than 3)? What would you suggest by way of plots/charactes/settings?