My Godfather IV is based on the body of I, II, III in that order. The theatrical release order, the publicly best known Godfather. The last scene in Godfather III (Al Pacino as an old man falling from the chair in the garden), was in Francis Coppola's own words thrown in as an after thought. I read that in a film critcism review at the library after its release. I feel it is the story continued in the most realistic and believeable way. Not a way I would necessarily personally prefer but the dialectically decontructed aftermath. I feel Coppolas' writing can reach its limits. His script for The Great Gatsby lacked substance. Without Mario Puzo he has lost the ball in intellectualizing the future of the Godfather. I would love him to direct my Godfather IV, this is his greatest talent, he is the most Oscar winning individual in Hollywood of the 20th century, I believe, in the century of the motion picture, the newest and greatest art form of our culture.