Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Barry Levinson will direct Francis And The Godfather, with Oscar Isaac starring as Francis Coppola and Jake Gyllenhaal as Robert Evans in a drama about the legendary and wild battles that went into making the 1972 classic The Godfather.
The film is based a Black List script by Andrew Farotte that was redeveloped by Levinson. Echo Lake Entertainment’s Mike Marcus, Doug Mankoff and Andrew Spaulding are producing with Kevin Turen, Jon Levin and Baltimore Pictures’ Jason Sosnoff.Endeavor Content is handling worldwide rights with FilmNation.While The Godfather is considered to be one of the greatest American films and a symbol of the ’70s auteur era, getting there was no easy task.
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