Originally Posted By: Sonny_Black
I've read it and gave my opinion about in an older topic, can't remember which one.

It was interesting to see that someone other than Puzo or FFC had ideas about a new story of The Godfather. I very much like Riesner's idea of the Corleones being involved with the CIA to kill a dictator as that also happened in real life. But I didn't like Riesner's writing style and his development of the story.


Yeah, the ideas themselves weren't that bad. But it was in no way a Part III in resolving the issues from the first 2 movies. Michael only had a cameo. Otherwise it was basically Anthony Corleone going all McBain in Cuba. And when Hagen bites the dust late in the movie no one even bats an eyelash.

One thing I did find interesting was that the burglar scene from Riesner's script was very similar to the one that was eventually used in Part III and the name of a character in Riesner's script was used in the unused Puzo/Coppola Part III script.