Oscar Isaac Cast as Francis Coppola in Movie About The Godfather

Oscar Isaac and Jake Gyllenhaal will reportedly star in Francis and The Godfather, a movie chronicling director Francis Ford Coppola's legendary trials making his Oscar-winning gangster classic The Godfather. According to THR, Oscar Isaac will portray Francis Ford Coppola, while Jake Gyllenhaal will play Robert Evans, a former actor who became the boss of Paramount Pictures and greenlit The Godfather. Coppola would go on to make two sequels to The Godfather in 1974 and 1990. Just a few short years after making The Godfather, Coppola, one of the great American auteur directors of the 1970s, would face even more notorious travails making Apocalypse Now, which were depicted in the documentary Hearts of Darkness. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/09/30/7-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-the-godfather"] Robert Evans later became a successful producer in his own right who recounted his career in the memoir The Kid Stays in the Picture, which was later turned into a documentary. Oscar-winner Barry Levinson (Bugsy, Rainman) will direct the film, which has also received the blessing of Coppola himself. Coppola said in a statement: “Any movie that Barry Levinson makes about anything, will be interesting and worthwhile!" Levinson, who reworked an original screenplay by Andrew Farotte, said: “Out of the madness of production, and against all odds, a classic film happened." Coppola faced not only Hollywood's lack of faith during the making of the film -- including pushback on the casting of then-relative unknown Al Pacino as Michael Corleone as well as the notoriously difficult Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone -- but the production also had to placate members of La Cosa Nostra who didn't want the term "Mafia" used in the movie. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2018/07/28/10-best-movie-moments-of-all-time"] Francis and The Godfather has been in the works since 2017.

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