Elle Fanning has been cast in Francis and The Godfather— the project about the making of The Godfather— playing Ali MacGraw.
She joins a cast that also includes Oscar Isaac as Francis Ford Coppola, Jake Gyllenhaal as Robert Evans, and Elisabeth Moss as Eleanor Coppola.
Barry Levinson will directFrancis and The Godfather, which is based on a Black List script by Andrew Farotte that was redeveloped with Levinson.
The feature will chronicle the battles betweenCoppola, who was 31 at the time, and Evans, which included taking a gamble on casting Marlon Brando, who had not had a hit in years, and a then-little-known Al Pacino.At the time, MacGraw wasmarried toParamount'shead of production Evans.
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