like, you have to call out sick and take the day off because you know you're going to be sitting in the theater for 8 hours!" They're two distinct pieces that are formed together to make one story.
THE GODFATHER 1 AND 2 IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER MOVIE
"The movie isn't a sequel in the Hollywood sense of the word. Instead, it was to be edited together with Part I to form one long, continuous theatrical movie to be titled The Godfather Saga. This left a good 45 minutes of finished footage sitting on the cutting room floor.īefore work began on Part II, Coppola was again struck with the "extended edition" idea and in 1973, announced to the press that Part II would not be a standalone film. After two more different cuts (at 210 minutes and 189 minutes) a compromise was reached and the final cut ran 175 minutes (plus a ten minute intermission that was later excised for its national run). His rough cut ended up running just under four hours, and he whittled it down to two hours and sent it off to Paramount, where Robert Evans complained that it felt like a trailer instead of a finished film.
Rather than despair, Coppola continued shooting with the intention to air the film as a two or three part mini series (after its initial theatrical run) with all of the additional footage included. Paramount was demanding a two hour long film, which meant that he was going to have to cut the film in half in order to get it into theaters. Early into production, Coppola realized that his cut stood a very good chance of running over four hours. Combining the two (and later, the three) Godfather films into one chronological cut with deleted scenes added is an idea that has kicked around since 1971, before the first film was even finished shooting.
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