You know, now would be the perfect time to make this movie correctly. Paramount should acquire the rights and film it with Coppola at the helm.

My thinking is this: Michael's part is small enough that purists won't bitch and moan that it wasn't made with Pacino way back when. If the 30ish actor does a good enough job at becoming Michael Corleone, Paramount has him on their back burner for a possible Part IV, for a flashback sequence, should they ever decide to go that route.

I really think it was Puzo's best novel, possibly the only one that didn't get thrown off course and cheapened by tacky sex scenes. The dialogue exchanged between Michael and Clemenza was wonderful. And just think, when Michael returns home in 1950, as he did at the end of the novel, DeNiro could play the part of Vito.