Originally posted by Ricardo:
[quote]Originally posted by annt:
[b]Plus, I would like to hear the conversation in which the Don says, "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." (exactly what was happening at that time and who did he say it to?)
WOW, I forgot about that.. was their a Family traitor before GF1? hmmm...WOW!
Anyways, the biggest mistake was making GF3 in 1979, instead of 1968!
They could have had 50 year odl AL playing 48 year old Mike!
Instead we got 50 year old AL playing 62 year Mike, and NOW that Al's 62, he can't play the 48 year old Mike for a flashback!
I agree tho, Duvall and Pacino could play Tom and Mike in the early 70's!
Mantegana, Mancini, MAYBE Wallach could return!
Wallach won't look any younger!
The Mosca actor was pretty young, he could still playa 55-60 year old Don!
Anyway!
1) type of original,interesting plot would you like it to have,without lazily rehashing the previous three.
Vito becomes Don during Prohibition, runs off Maranzano and Masseria. Meets Pentanegllis. Irish War. Bandleader. Hack hack bathtowel. Luca's baby. Soony 'makes his bones'. Turi's father, Alfio Dorrio, Domenick Clemenza, Tommasino, Stefan Andolini are imported for irish War (Sicilian sub-plot), 5 Families are formed.
2) year would you set it in.
1927-1944
3) unanswered plot questions from the previous films you'd like having answered.
We met Young Roth, what about Young Frankie, Young Luca, Moe'sBones', Mike's cheerleaders, Tom Hagen is adopted, Tommasino becomes Don after Ciccio, We meet Cicci, maybe some of Officer neri! Carlo's family in Nevada!
4) original surviving character/s (if any) from the previous 3 should be in it.
Vito, Clemenza, tessio, Moe, Hyman, Frankie, Luca, Vincenzo, Sonny, Paulie, Francis Forducci (Just so he can have his 5 minutes of fame), Ola, Maranzello, Masseria, Genco, Tom, Officer Neri
5) would be your favored choice to direct it,if Francis passes and says no.
Hmm, Scorsese, i like the Raging Bull tiemline. Except this would be done in COLOR!
1) type of original,interesting plot would you like it to have,without lazily rehashing the previous three.
Anthony discovers Fredo is dead, leaves to live with kay, mary leaves too, Tom stays on a slegal man, but gets away from Mike for fear of being whacked. Rosatos bomb Mike. Anthony goes into Vietnam, drps out for law school, Andrew is oradianed, Mike sells Casinos, Cuneo Junior kills Cicci to avenge his father, rise of Altobello, Vincent, Zasa!
2) year would you set it in.
1968-1975
3) unanswered plot questions from the previous films you'd like having answered.
WHy kdis leave Mke for kay? What happenend to Cicci and Rosatos? What happened in Cuba with Castro? What happened to Deana Dunn and Fredo's casinos after he died? Maybe Fredo has a son? Maybe a 1963 wedding flashback to wehn mary and Vincent first meet. Tom died? What ahppened to Victor Santino MF RIzzi?
4) original surviving character/s (if any) from the previous 3 should be in it.
Mike, Kay, Anthony, Mary, Zasa, Altobello, Vincent, Neri, Connie, Vincenzo, Mosca, Pope, Gilday, Tom, Andrew, Santino, Victor, Frank Corleone, Francesca and gardner Shaw, Deana Dunn
5) would be your favored choice to direct it,if Francis passes and says no.
FFC MIGHT do this, or else?????? how aboutt eh guy that ddi last DOn. his 60's, 70's atmosphere was AWESOME!
1) type of original,interesting plot would you like it to have,without lazily rehashing the previous three.
Don Vincent expects to take over Immobilaire but Mike stays in control! Connie aproaches Neri about Fredo. We find otu that Neri opened the blinds and killed the hitmen. Rocco was in, but Fredo didn';t know. Neri shot him to keep him quiet! Neri poisins Mike's orange. Connnie has Vincent whack Neri! We find out that Grace (Dom's wife) had Vincent's baby. Dom wants Vince whacked and sides with Neri. But Neri's killed and so is Dom. We find outt hat Vicne wasn't PRETENDIGN! He knocked off Altoebllo, Gilday, Keinsizg, and Luchesi. And hired Mosca to kill Mike! Vincenw nted to take over! New pope abandons whole Vatican bank deal! Mike retires later dies leaving his shares to Anthony! Kay later dies. We find out Vicne planned to knock off Mike to marry Mary, but Mary died carryign his child! He killed Mosca to keep him quiet! Vince whacks Lupo! The Commision Case and Vincent is jailed! Anthony lives in Sicily performigng Opera until his fatehr dies!
2) year would you set it in.
1980-shortly after Mike's death!
3) unanswered plot questions from the previous films you'd like having answered.
Who opened blinds, killed hitmen in 1958? Was Fredo in? Was Rocco? What happened with Grace? Immobilire? Vatican? Pope? Santino? Victor? Easter 1980!
4) original surviving character/s (if any) from the previous 3 should be in it.
Vincent, Connie, Mike, (Cameo: Kay, Douglas), Anthony & Lola, Neri, Dom, Grace, B.J., Andrew
5) would be your favored choice to direct it,if Francis passes and says no.
Scorsese.... Goodfellas was good!
The 80's![/b][/quote]damn you have some imagination! quite good man. too bad you never finished your script.
the third suggestion tho was too much. Neither Neri nor Vincent could ever betray Mike. My guess is that Michael went out of every business he was in (Imobbiliare too) after Mary died. He lived a quite life in poverty for the next seventeen years, nothing spectacular.
also, some plot history answered in GF3 but never shown (Anthony finding out about Fredo, Tom Hagen dies, etc.) should be left unshown, I think. The parts from the novel, like about Luca Brasi's baby, can be visualized, yeah sure, just like the first movie. But story parts created later for the second and third movie, but never filmed, shouldn't be filmed I think. Keep some room open for new plots, we don't want to see a GF4 movie without anything new in it? I'd say forget about the whereabouts of Cicci, Carlo Rizzi, Pentangeli, etcetera, most of them anyway.
In a GF4 a lot of new stuff should come up, in stead of visualizing every missing footage told before in the three movies. Only a few basic elements should return
We all feel as though we know this "family" in the very beginning and toward the end. But there are the years when Vito was younger that we don't know. I want to know more about Vito getting his power. When GF 1 started he already gained power and in GF2 in the flashbacks with DeNiro,it showed the very beginning. How did he get from the butcher shop/deli or whatever, to the man of power he became? We saw him get Mr. Roberto to lower the rent for his neighbor, and we saw him "whack" Funnucci (which I realize was the beginning of his crime life), but what happens after that. 
Its a thought though (and we can see how Vincent can run things, and I am sure one huge fan will agree on that 
I think if Coppola passes Scorcese or Steven Soderbourgh can do a great job (Traffic was compared to The Godfather so why not be in one).
I don't think any of us want a GF4 made just for the sake of making one. However, in my opinion, if the script/producer/director/actors were right (that's a lot to ask, but not impossible) it could be done. I just would hate to see it become "old" and end up like some of these other series of sequels. :rolleyes: I always thought they should go back to the "young Vito" days, showing exactly how he got his power and his family life when he first came to America.
