Dan Fogler & Patrick Gallo Interview: The Offer
Paramount+ dives deep into cinematic history with The Offer, which lays bare the creative processbehind one of the greatest movies ever made: The Godfather. Hollywood celebrates the film's 50th anniversary by gathering together some of today's brightest stars to recount the story of how America's most beloved mobster move almost didn't get made. With the first three episodes aired, it's already the talk of the town.
The stellar cast is made up of Miles Teller (Top Gun: Maverick) as super producer Albert Ruddy, Giovanni Ribisi (Avatar 2) as real-life mafia boss Joe Colombo, Patrick Gallo (The Irishman) as original author Mario Puzo, and Dan Fogler (The Walking Dead) as Coppola himself. There are many more behind the scenes players who make an appearance, all leading to the same inevitable conclusion: the true story of the Godfather is almost as incredible as its fiction.
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Fogler and Gallo spoke to Screen Rant about which bits of film lore were more surprising to them, and why they have so much respect for Coppola.
Screen Rant: There's a lot of never-before-heard stories here. What surprised you the most when you found out this actually happened?
Patrick Gallo: For some reason, I wasn't that aware of how Francis didn't want to be a part of the project. [He] didn't love the book, didn't really want to do it, and was kind of pushed into it by George Lucas, you know what I mean? For Zoetrope, and to kind of fund the rest of their careers.
I wasn't super aware of that, and I think it's a really cool dynamic, as sort of the catalyst to how this incredible journey began. Which is, «I didn't want to do it, but I'll do it,» and now it's the greatest American
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