![]() ![]() ![]() So it was an extremely nightmarish experience. I was always on the verge of getting fired. They didn’t like the way I was shooting it. The Godfather was a very unappreciated movie when we were making it. Coppola was eventually approached by producer Robert Evans, who wanted an Italian-American to direct the film.Īs Coppola later recalled in an interview: Next up was Peter Bogdanovich but he also knocked it back as he was working on What’s Up, Doc?. Francis Ford Coppola was not the first choice to direct The Godfather, Paramount Studios wanted Sergio Leone, but he turned it down to concentrate on his own gangster movie Once Upon A Time in America.
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