The Godfather/Trivia


 * A real-life mob-boss was recently apprehended while he was playing the videogame adaptation.
 * Breakthrough Hit: Because of the original, you know who Francis Ford Coppola is.
 * Easter Egg: In the videogame, on the mission where you help protect Vito in the hospital, if you go up to Vito's room while Michael is talking to him and listen in, the conversation is one of Marlon Brando's last recorded performances. A Marlon Brando soundalike was used for Vito's other scenes.
 * Refitted for Sequel: Vito's backstory in Part II is taken from scenes left out of the original novel.
 * Troubled Production: Paramount was not helpful to Coppola at all.
 * What Could Have Been: Supposedly, Winona Ryder was cast as Mary but she opted instead to film Mermaids. Rebecca Schaeffer had an audition for the part of Mary scheduled for the day she was murdered.
 * Robert Redford and Ryan O'Neal were considered for the part of Michael Corleone
 * Actually not as crazy as thought, in the book Michael is described as looking rather un-Italian with fair hair.
 * Coppola wanted to make a fourth movie similar to Part II but focusing on the Corleones' rise to power under Vito and Sonny's leadership, and the fall of the Corleone empire under Vincent, but many of the actors were disinterested and it was abandoned with the death of Mario Puzo.