“The Greatest Movie Almost Never Made”

– The Offer

THE OFFER PARAMOUNT PICTURES COULDN’T REFUSE…

The Offer is a biographical drama limited series from Paramount+, created by Michael Tolkin and developed by Tolkin and Nikki Toscano for the streaming service. The limited series follows the development and production at Paramount Pictures of Francis Ford Coppola‘s landmark gangster genre film, The Godfather made in 1972. The Offer stars Miles Teller, Matthew Goode, Giovanni Ribisi, Colin Hanks, Dan Fogler, Juno Temple, and Burn Gorman. It premiered on Paramount+ on April 28, 2022, with 10 episodes that ran until June 16, 2022.

The Offer is November‘s Featured Blog of the month for my Television section to coincide with The Godfather being November‘s Featured Blog of the month for my Film section. While I discussed why the greatest gangster film ever made is considered an unlikely Holiday classic in the film section, I saved the television section to go into length about the production of the film, which was wrought with many missteps and Hollywood stories, many of which could have stopped one of the greatest movies ever made, from almost never being made.

I briefly discussed 10 things you might not have known happened while filming The Godfather in 1972, whereas, with The Offer, I will go into the 10 things further as well as many other things that allegedly happened while making the Francis Ford Coppola classic. This is mainly because this limited series is about just that, what exactly happened behind the scenes while Paramount Pictures tried to get the best-selling book with the same title of 1969 by Mario Puzo on screen for all to see when the studio was at death’s door and needed a sure-fire hit to make a profit. The Godfather couldn’t fail, and wouldn’t fail, but Albert S. Ruddy, the producer of the film, didn’t feel like that as it got made. And this series tries to tell that story in 10 episodes.

With The Offer as the Featured Blog of the month you will find a Critique about the limited series on Paramount+, as well as a Recommendation detailing the events that occurred behind the scenes that the 10 episodes dramatized and how much of it was truth and how much of it was made for TV, you will also find a Review of the actual The Godfather production in 1972. And as always with my Featured Blog of the month, you will find My Top Ten List, and the top ten list for The Offer is “My Top Ten Biographical Limited Series,” and you will also find an Interview relating the limited series, The Offer. And as always I start a Featured Blog of the month off with the Official Trailer for the film or television series, so without further ado I give you, The Offer you can’t refuse to watch.

You can watch the 2022 Official Trailer for The Offer below: