RIP Mario Puzo (October 15, 1920 - July 2, 1999), aged 78 You will be remembered as a legend

Puzo's idea for a Part 4 sounds great, I hope it comes to film someday.

RIP Mario Puzo

I have the utmost respect for Mario Puzo's writing skills. I read The Godfather I was amazed. I read The Last Don and was just taken by the vision of this man and when I read Omerta which in my opinion is the best of the Mafia triology of Puzo's i was flat out enthralled. Great writer and everybody should read his work

mario puzo is a great writer i read the godfather, the sicilian, and now reading "omerta". i realy love his writings

Paramount were hard on Fancis during the shooting of the Godfather.

The Godfather was one of my favorite books and became one of my favorite movies..I have watched over and over..now watching The Offer and watch the movie again to see the parts the show talked about that week!! Love all 3!!!

Easily in my top ten books of all time. You will not be able to put it down. I just read it for the second time last week and I did it in 3 days. An American masterpiece, very well written.

Puzo looks like Chazz Palminteri.

Thank you

Such a shame because I would love to see that movie! Ed Falco wrote The Family Corleone and captures I think half of what Puzo wished for in the Godfather Part 4. I would love to see the movie- with the right actors castes of course and Coppola directing- but damn Paramount won't do it. We should petition y'all.

Last I heard, Francis was having some SLIGHT CONSIDERATIONS about pulling out the script for The Godfather 4...however, to be very frank, I think I saw the book as complete within the first two films. The third one was good, but not that good. I think another film (especially so long after) would do extreme damage to both Coppola's repuation and the series. I don't see how a fourth installment could work. I really don't.

I just read the opening paragraphs of The Godfather. He sure can write! His sentences just sing and pull you into the story. Makes me want to give it a go

What a team!

Mario Puzo = Best writer ever!

Fascinating interviews and insights - Godfather 1 and 2 were brilliant. Godfather 3 was a failure. I would love to see a Godfather 4 based on Mario Puzo's description of it.

A story perfectly balanced as all things should be.

Mario Puzo is just a genius.

Still wish part 4 would happen

i want to get the godfather book so bad

Do it! Do 4!

fortunately... arts and music industry FLOURISHED in america... that attracted global eyes ears and brains... giving joy to the lonely... pacifying the aggrieved... consoling the restless...

This Trilogy is a Masterpiece, perfect.

@g6686not The Godfather 4 was originally supposed to go right into early stages of production in early 1999, however there were some set backs. Unfortunately Mario Puzo passed away before any negotiations could be shared. Francis Ford Coppola still retains the FILM RIGHTS...so IF he wanted to adapt a fourth installment, he could easily do so as Hollywood nor any studio in Hollywood doesn't own the rights and can't do it, Hollywood's been trying to get the rights, but FFC is smart, luckily.

6:21 Let's get the picture made about the rise of Sonny Corleone! I agree with Puzo, this would be a great story to tell.

@kolatian do you know where this interview is from (i.e. the title of the interview/documentary )?

The Sicilian and The Last Don are both just as good, IMO.

Know in should've been a Sonny/Vincent story like Part II Vito/Michael

wow if 4 came out that would be amazing what year was this interview

I feel for this series as I do for lord of the rings, though I'm glad the third one was actually good. 3 lacked something, It wasn't right. I feel sad I'll never know the feeling of seeing the godfather in theaters, though maybe if I had I would have been someone who was raised to take great art for granted. Sad world we live in.

@g6686not i agree completely! i'm not saying the 3rd movie was horrible, it was good, but that's it. when i saw the 1st & 2nd one, i LITERALLY stood silent after the credit was over, thinking "wow wtf? wow that was... wow.. wow wow" and then i saw the 3rd one and i didn't get struck. i was more like, "what?!! oh no he didn't!" well so yea anyway, i think it would've been more awesome if they'd gone with mario's version with the background stories of each character :)

Interesting re paramount considering what was in the documentary the real godfather.

Both Pacino and De Niro owe their careers to Coppola :) George Lucas too for that matter...

@gunner23 Maybe it was because when he was a child, he saw his father killing another man and the godfather believe that every man have his own destiny, and the destiny of sonny is to become a killer

a true mafia writer...on The Last Don though...Cross and Ciel were making out up in the attic...but the book does not have that...so the writer added that in the tv script

4 might ve been perfect...maybe fixed 3..or maybe not..puzo...thank you..

Crowdfunding campaign for godfather 4 and then push paramount to do it

Why didn't he pay Marlon Brando?

Guess what, now it's called "death of Michael Corleone"

so who knows how sonny becomes a killer???????? its a great twist from the book.

sonno cosa nostra.big book great movie

damn hollywood! lol! I mean nowdays they come out with all these crappy remakes but here you had mario wanting to write yet another epic that would have made hollywood millions! And yet they didn't do it smh..

The third never should’ve been made. Never.

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the best movies of all time came from great books......except titanic!!!!

@kolatian She is a good filmmaker, but she FUCKED UP THAT MOVIE

What a shame (but no surprise) that Paramount (and Robert Evans) screwed Mario Puzo over for $50,000...owning all he writes and wrote about the Godfather, who's films went on to make about 1 billion dollars. Sad.

God father 4 wouldnt work

I could see Leo DiCaprio playing a young aggressive sonny Corleone for some reason. I hope this happens!!

See how the big brass mess everything up! They pushed Coppola and took his power away on the film, 3 could of been better, and there is no 4 which would of been great with Deniro playing the Godfather during Prohibition.

Part 3 sucks yeah but it is inevitable. Without the death of Michael, there's no proper ending. You cant end a movie with just Michael killing his brother, thats pointless.

I can see a Godfather Part IV, set in the 30s at the height of Vito's power. Johnny Depp could really pull off Vito Corleone, and maybe Ryan Gossling could play Sonny Corleone.

I love De Niro but it would have been much better to have Brando as young Vito Corleone.

There are so many angles Francis could've done with the 3rd one, Vincent's life before he turned into a mob, Connie becoming a mob boss.......Michael's story was told and done already! Francis & Mario are very bright ppl, wonder why they ran out of ideas 💡

Horrible? How can u use a word like this to describe that movie?

Part III was atrocious but a part IV, if done correctly, could capture the violent lifestyle in the 1970’s and 1980’s and lead into the taking down of the mob via RICO laws, which would include the head of the Corleone family.

The last godfather is horrible. It should have been about Connie's attempt to restore the crime family by attempting to place her son in the position of being the new don. They could have contrasted this with Puzo's desire to show the rise of Vito's family just as FFC contrasted Michael and Vito in GF2.

No, III is HORRIBLE. Sofia Coppola is a black mark on the film, as is the very poorly conceived dialog. The entrance of Joe Mantegna is the jump-the-shark moment of the trilogy.

Forget III -- II is horrible.

Why are we so always consumed by criminal films and character? Why, at least today, we don’t like to make and see films based on events which we could have in our life?!