When Don Geoff & myself attended the DVD release party of The Godfather Trilogy, Coppola said "NEVER", as he also said to GF2 & 3 -- so even when he said that, it was tongue-in-cheek. Its funny to note that whenever he walks into an italian restaurant and they play the GF theme, he gets neaseous and cannot even eat because the making of GF1 & 2 (back to back) was such a horrible experience for him.. paramount really raked him over the coals, and obviously the studio was wrong as GF remains in the AFI top 10 list even still 35 years later...

Even still, I would love to see how the character of Vincent Corelone develops, for a Cuban native, he plays a damn good Sicilian... which is probably why they call him the "Pacino" of our time... Great actor...

I agree Andy Garcia is a good actor, but the Pacino of our time????

Yeah, we live in a stupid time.

Why can't Andy Garcia be the Adny Garcia of our time? He's nothing close to Pacino. Garcia started out his career pretty well, but lately he has become a generic actor. He has no edge on screen anymore.

I might just have to agree with you, he had many diverse roles in the 90s and now it seems like he is typecast (so was pacino for awhile as a cop or as a mobster), so I too wonder what happend to all that talent... i think hollywood is more to blame, they are always looking for a new flavor of the month, or in this case, new flavor of the year... they get bent on actors like brad pitt and its harder for older actors to get great roles... sux, you never saw that in old hollywood, maybe its just me...

Ummm, yes...and for a New York Jewish guy, Jimmy Caan played a pretty damn good Sicilian as well.

I don't know why everyone's so anxious to see how Vincent 'developed'. Judging from that massacre on the steps of the Opera House, and the death of Mary in the crossfire...I'd say his role as 'Don Corleone' was and remained pretty abysmal one.

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I think seeing the family succumb to the way of the modern mafia might be a good ending to the series. I am wary of it and after it lost steam after Puzo died, it seems like a long shot, but I would still love to see more Godfather.

Probably why I'll be a sucker when The Godfather's Revenge comes out.

Me too, if it has to do with The Godfather, I'm there. No matter what.

DeathByClothesHanger: I think you are right, i think that while we see the modern mafia fall to to real mafiosa of our day (retail chains) like we saw in the most recent episode of the Sopranos, would be interesting but sad, again, watch the most recent episode of the sopranos, where tony, due to greed sells one of the last parts of the neighborhood he grew up in for a retail chain. He admits that the poultry guy's eggs are 10x better than those from the supermarket (and for those of you who don't know, yes, organic does taste better, at least when it comes to eggs)... and he recongnizes the elderly lady he has known for decades, but he sells it out for the almighty dollar. More profoundly was the guy who goes into the starbucks (or whatever coffee chain) and looks for protection money and the guy tells him flat out "every last bean has been accounted for". Tony too, in therapy says "every city looks the same" -- its all real stuff, carried on 60 mins too, in practically any major city in a 1-mile stretch you an count on McDonalds, Burger King, Starbucks, Wendys and the usual applebees/chilis, etc.

After all the heat of the giotti thing in the 1990s, italians bailed out of manhattan's little italy and headed for Staten Island & Jersey... Chinese bought up that real estate and yuppies moved into the area with escalating rents... its a fact.

Do I want to see a GF4/+ movie illustrating that? No. I know the sad truth. Would I watch it? Of course. But, I know where its all going, and it should be separate from the great Trilogy we know... its about the glory/rise of the family, not the downfall to greedy capitalists, that is the sad state of the USA in this century.

It may have its story worth telling, but not in the same realm of classics we already know... call it something else, but please don't call it "Godfather IV".

What if they moved the family to another city, like Michael did in Nevada?

There would still be obvious NYC connections, and the fan-fiction script I've been writing has the action all set in NYC, but it would be interesting to see what could happen if the Corleone's moved somewhere different.

Yeah, they could move to Branson, Missouri and take over all those cheesy casinos where all the has beens have shows.