Coppola hoped to redeem the franchise with The Godfather Part IV. He began developing ideas for the story with Mario Puzo, ...

First-time viewers of The Godfather would be smart to keep a cast guide open while watching Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece film franchise based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo.

The studio's leadership decides to take a gamble and make The Godfather, an adaptation of Mario Puzo's bestselling novel of the same name, and Paramount exec Robert Evans (played by Matthew Goode ...