The writers and creators of the Paramount+ series TheOffer talk about the challenges in making a behind-the-scenes show about TheGodfather.
It’s hard to make a good film, let alone a classic, and the behind-the-scenes tale about the creation — and near collapse — of The Godfather has enough drama and suspense to fill 10 hourlong episodes. Yet The Offer is more than just a gossipy tell-all about Hollywood; it’s also about corporate politics, the pressures of commerce on art, and the changing role of the Mafia in the Age of Aquarius.
Michael Tolkin: Nicole Clemens called me and asked if I would be interested in adapting the Al Ruddy story for a television series. I wasn’t skeptical, but it sounded like it could be interesting. So I met Al and over the course of about a few weeks, I went to his house and interviewed him. I asked him: “Why did you make The Godfather? What was it like?” And one thing Al said about making The Godfather was that every day of making the movie was the worst day of his life.
Toscano: I also think an additional challenge was the sort of sheer amount of material there is about the making of The Godfather. And a lot of that material is at times is contradictory to another resource. So it was really wading through the incredible amount of information that there is on the film and choosing stories that allowed us to tell a cohesive narrative in 10 hours of television.
Toscano: We did not. One of the things that we knew early on is that there would have been so many people to contact that were involved in the making of The Godfather. We had to tell a cohesive narrative. We couldn’t have 25 characters on screen at one time, so we had to tell the story through three characters on screen at one time.
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