I like all your scenarios and dialog, dt. There's no question that, if Duvall had signed on, the plot would have been greatly enhanced--radically different and for the better, almost certainly--because of Duvall's stature and his history with the other two films. Instead, we got the Melanoma Poster Boy.
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.