'The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone' review
Dear friends and enemies,
I haven’t written the next installment of our Francis Ford Coppola series since The Rainmaker, the Megalopolis teaser, the Megalopolis full trailer, and the reactions to the premiere of Megalopolis at the Cannes Film Festival all colluded to destroy my sanity in the month of May. I have since recovered and I chose to rewatch a movie that I know is good—to me, very good. (This is a lie, why did I write that? I watched the movie over a month ago now, before Megalopolis premiered at Cannes at all! I just haven’t been able to make sense out of my post and I’ve been putting it off!)
The Godfather Part III Coda Redux Reprise: The Death of Michael Corleone was originally released on Christmas Day, 1990. Immediately following Part II in 1974, the studio went ahead and began developing a third, without Coppola’s involvement (his choice), which languished in development hell for over a decade; by the mid-1980s, our Francis was desperate some USD and decided to return to his beloved cash cow.
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