The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone with NEW ending!

I'd be interested to see it, not sure I'd part with my money over it though.

"It is to ponder."

First, in this lockdown/quarantine year of 2020, very few theaters will get this film and so the ability to really promote this as a "movie event" is limited.

Second, Godfather III has always had to live down its reputation as not matching the two-time Best Picture excellence of I and II, for any number of reasons, but for starters: being released in 1990, 18 years after I and 16 years after II, simply put too much time between the original epic and this one.

Third, Coppola made the disastrous decision, after Winona Ryder dropped out, to cast his own daughter in the key role of Michael Corleone's daughter. Her acting wasn't up to that of the seasoned players around her, and somewhat embarrassingly, she didn't physically match up to scenes based on her "beauty."

And the original great cast of characters -- which had already lost Brando and Caan for Godfather II -- now lost Robert Duvall for III. Irony: III ended up being a showcase movie for the neglected women of the original: Diane Keaton and Talia Shire. But Keaton had become a different kind of actress since 1972, a star with a certain flibbergibbet comedy presence more often than drama. She didn't "fit" The Godfather anymore. Conversely, Shire got her chance to shine as a cold Coreleone plotter of business murder, this time.

I'm among those who find Godfather III to certainly be entertaining enough. Its got a few classic lines ("I try to get out and they keep pulling me back in "-- meaningful for working life), an interesting Vatican-based plot based on real life and entanglements with Paramount itself, and one really fun mass murder attempt(a machine-gunning via helicopter on Mafia men locked in a skyscraper banquet room) that feels more like Die Hard than Coppola.

But now, 20 years after a movie that was almost 20 years after its original -- comes Francis Coppola to try to make it better. We shall see.

I agree totally about Sofia Coppola she just wasn’t a good enough actress or believable in the role,

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And this must be confronted: I am sure that her beauty then was "special" (you can see her father in her face), it wasn't gorgeous. So when Andy Garcia's character fell in love with her, it gave him the look of a "male gold digger" out to use the plain daughter of Don Michael as his wedge into the family. I don't think that was intended at all.

By contrast: Alfred Hitchcock used his lookalike daughter, Patricia Hitchcock, in three films (most famously , Psycho) -- and cast her as the "dowdy comic relief" each time. The daughter wanted to act; the father wanted to PROPERLY cast her without embarrassment. Francis Coppola didn't think this through.

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Fonda was far better I’d rather have seen more of her.

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She is well-matched, looks-wise, with Andy Garcia in their post-sex scene together, THERE is your beautiful couple. And then the scene turns into a nifty Mafia shootout.