{"id":10747,"date":"2011-02-03T15:19:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T15:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=10747"},"modified":"2011-02-03T15:33:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T15:33:42","slug":"the-godfather-screen-tests-al-pacino-james-caan-martin-sheen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/02\/03\/the-godfather-screen-tests-al-pacino-james-caan-martin-sheen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Godfather Screen Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10748\" title=\"The Godfather Screen Tests\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/The-Godfather-Screen-Tests.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How would <strong>The Godfather<\/strong> worked out if <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_De_Niro\">Robert De Niro<\/a> played Sonny Corleone and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Caan\">James Caan<\/a> played Michael?<\/p>\n<p>These screen tests give an interesting glimpse of what might have been.<\/p>\n<p>Here is De Niro as Sonny:<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4tdgBlZc8Wc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>As for the critical role of Michael Corleone, this video shows <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al_Pacino\">Al Pacino<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Caan\">James Caan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Sheen\">Martin Sheen<\/a> auditioning for the part alongside <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diane_Keaton\">Diane Keaton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BBn8fpo6Wfw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>The tests were edited by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marcia_Lucas\">Marcia Lucas<\/a> (wife of George) who went on to edit Star Wars (1977).<\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Godfather\">The Godfather<\/a> at Wikipedia<br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/09\/23\/the-godfather-on-blu-ray\/\">Details on The Godfather Blu-ray release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How would The Godfather worked out if Robert De Niro played Sonny Corleone and James Caan played Michael?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[84,1826,1825,518],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}