It's hard to imagine anyone else as Don Vito Corleone but Marlon Brando, but Paramount fought director Francis Ford Coppola over him getting the part.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT It's hard to believe that at one point Paramount didn't want to cast Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role in The Godfather. In what has become a career-defining performance amidst a legacy of terrific roles, Brando played Vito Corleone, the patriarch and don of the Corleone crime family.
Paramount Didn’t Want Marlon Brando In The Godfather Due To His Reputation & Box Office Flops Paramount gave Francis Ford Coppola the task of adapting Mario Puzo's bestselling novel to film because they wanted an Italian-American attached to it, but fought him about his methodology. Not only did he set parts of it in the '40s which went against the studios' desires to have it be contemporary like the book was, but they didn't want Brando to be Don Corleone.
How Francis Ford Coppola Got His Way & Cast Marlon Brandon In The Godfather When he directed The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola was 29 and had no influence over major studios. "I was young and had no power," he explained, "so [the studio] figured they could just boss me around." Nevertheless, he fought back against their decision to veto casting Brando because he wanted to get "one of the greatest actors in the world.
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