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The Family Corleone is a 2012 novel by Ed Falco, based on an unproduced screenplay by Mario Puzo, who died in 1999. [1] It is the prequel to Puzo's The Godfather . It was published by Grand Central Publishing and released May 8, 2012. [ 2 ]
It is the first installment in The Godfather trilogy, chronicling the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando) and the transformation of his youngest son, Michael Corleone (Pacino), from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss. Paramount Pictures obtained the rights to the novel for $80,000, before it gained popularity.
The Corleone family fights a mob war with the other four Mafia families in New York in the years after World War II. The war sees the ascent of Don Vito Corleone's youngest son Michael, who previously held his family's crime enterprise in low regard. With Vito retired at the conclusion of the war, Michael orchestrates a plan to relocate the ...
This is a list of characters from the film series The Godfather, consisting of The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990), based on Mario Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same name, as well as the book series The Godfather consisting of the original, Puzo's The Sicilian (1984), Mark Winegardner's The Godfather Returns (2004) and The Godfather's ...
The Corleone family are fictional characters in both the novels and the films created by Mario Puzo, first appearing in his 1969 novel, The Godfather. They are an organized crime family originating from the Sicilian town of Corleone, and based in New York City. The Corleone family has drawn comparisons with the real-life Genovese and Bonanno ...
The novel received mixed critical reviews. [3] [4] [5]Paramount Pictures sued the Puzo estate for the publication of the novel, and also sought to block publication of The Family Corleone, claiming that it had only authorized publication of one sequel, The Godfather Returns. [2]
His latest book is the poetry Collection, X in the Tickseed (LSU, 2024). His previous books include the novel, Transcendent Gardening (C&R Press, 2022), the poetry collection Wolf Moon Blood Moon (LSU, 2017), and the crime novels Toughs (Unbridled Books, 2014) and The Family Corleone (Grand Central, 2012).
Being illegitimate (because his parents were unmarried), he was not included in the Corleone family as a youth. As an adult, when Michael Corleone offers Vincent employment in one of the family's legitimate businesses, Vincent declines, preferring to work for Joey Zasa, who runs the remnants of the Corleone family's criminal empire in New York ...