Fifty years back, Francis Ford Coppola was in the thick of creating his screen rendition of Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather, facing serious resistance from Paramount Pictures who were set against ...

The studio was against the casting idea at first, then they saw the tape. By Ryan Parker The role most fans associate Marlon Brando with in The Godfather almost didn’t happen because he was seen as ...

LOS ANGELES - Marlon Brando repeatedly rejected playing the role of Don Corleone in "The Godfather," telling an assistant: "It's about the Mafia. I won't glorify the Mafia," according to an article in ...

Billy Zane made a stunning transformation into late film actor Marlon Brando. The 58-year-old appeared as a spitting image of Brando’s Don Vito Corleone from Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 mob drama, ...