Because his dialogue in the film would be in Sicilian, which he did not speak or understand, De Niro prepared for his role by living in Sicily. He had grace.' As a matter of fact, De Niro had spent some time in his apprenticeship days as a young actor studying Brando's acting style and was able to recreate in Godfather II Brando's measured gestures and calm, convincing voice." Ironically, De Niro had auditioned unsuccessfully for a role in the first film, but when Coppola saw his performance in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973) he brought him back to audition again.
'I thought De Niro had a sort of stately bearing, as if he really was the young Vito who would grow into that older man who was Marlon Brando in Godfather I. As for new members of the cast, Coppola was at pains to find the right actor to play Vito Corleone as a young man.
Gene Phillips wrote in his book Godfather: The Intimate Francis Ford Coppola, "Many of the actors from The Godfather reprised their roles in Godfather II: Al Pacino, Talia Shire, Diane Keaton, John Cazale, and Robert Duvall all returned. They were both in their thirties and I would integrate the two stories.In order not to merely make Godfather I over again, I gave Godfather II this double structure by extending the story in both the past and in the present."
Those demands were: "hat the sequel be interconnected with the first film with the intention of later showing them together that he be allowed to direct his own script of The Conversation (1974) that he be allowed to direct a production for the San Francisco Opera and that he be allowed to write the screenplay for The Great Gatsby (1974) - all prior to production of the sequel for a Christmas 1974 release." Coppola later remembered, "I looked at the calendar and realized that I had three months to write a two-hundred-page screenplay for Godfather II (1974), and then go right into pre-production."Ĭoppola's idea for the sequel would be to "juxtapose the ascension of the family under Vito Corleone with the decline of the family under his son Michael.I had always wanted to write a screenplay that told the story of a father and a son at the same age. Coppola finally gave in when the studio agreed to his demands. He suggested Martin Scorsese but Paramount refused. Francis Ford Coppola, who had directed the first film, was not interested because the studio had nearly fired him from the first production several times. Share The Godfather (1972) had been such a box-office and critical sensation, that Paramount Studios wanted to make a follow-up quickly.
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