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* A real-life mob-boss was [http://blog.games.yahoo.com/blog/142-mob-boss-arrested-while-playing-godfather-game 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 [[The Godfather (
* [[Refitted for Sequel]]: Vito's backstory in ''Part II'' is taken from scenes left out of the original novel.
* [[Troubled Production]]: [[Executive Meddling|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.
** [[WTH? Casting Agency|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 [[Author Existence Failure|death of Mario Puzo]].
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