Instead of trying to rewrite/update/improve upon/embellish already well-established characters, why not a series of novels chronicling the rise of each of the other Dons?

It might be interesting to read about what Phillip Tattaglia, Carmine Cuneo or Emilio Barzini were up to when Vito was making grocery deliveries. At least, it would be a potentially fresh approach to a story that's pretty much run its course.

Don't get me wrong, I'll probably watch the GF saga thousands more times before my life's end. But, with grosso respeto, the Corleone tale has been told.

i think it would be a good idea , i would definitely be interested in how barzine n co went up in the world

This should have probably gone in the Godfather Returns forum, but oh well.

I look at these novels as fan fiction and nothing else. No chance I am going to correct anyone and say that Fredo was really gay or that Kay never really had an abortion.

What Winegardner should have done was fill in the gaps in the films. Like explain the story behind Frankie proclaiming "that was no heart attack!" and what happened to Sonny's real kids... but make it interesting!

I'm not exactly sure what the Revenge is going to be about, but I hope he is able to expand or correct a lot of the mistakes he made in the first book (like have Kay reveal that she DID have an abortion) and show us what happens to the Corleone family after Part III.

I'll read it, but my hopes are low and it'll be a fun book to read when there's nothing on TV.

Yea he could come on the BB and take some of our suggestions!!!

It doesn't necessarily have to be him.

Hey, we've got budding novelists in this forum, don't we, J. Geoff?... They might like a story like this.

He could make himself quite useful if he would stop writing.