Francis Ford Coppola is finally at peace with Godfather: Part III. The Oscar-winning director recut the Paramount gangster film to become the picture he envisioned some 30 years ago.
In a Thursday interview withCBS This Morning,Coppola said he believes the new version of the film — with a different beginning and ending — vindicates the movie, which, while being nominated for a slew of Oscars, was savaged by critics and some fans. "It was like pulling on the thread of a sweater that annoyed you, and you end up re-knitting the whole sweater," he says of the new cut, which has been retitledMario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone.
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