Just when we thought we were done celebrating The Godfather, Paramount+ pull us back in. In the year that Francis Ford Coppola’s gangster epic turns 50, the new streaming service is giving us The Offer, the hotly anticipated series dramatising the making of the crime classic. Leave the gun, take the cannoli, and watch the new trailer for the show here:
A 10-part limited series written by The Player’s Michael Tolkin, with several episodes helmed by Rocketman director Dexter Fletcher, The Offer is set in the early 1970s, and tells the well-known (yet still almost unbelievable) true story behind the making of Coppola’s opus. The series will centre around Albert S. Ruddy, played by Miles Teller, who is hired to produce a cinematic adaptation of Mario Puzo’s doorstop mobster tome. Working with an ambitious, uncompromising 29-year-old Francis Ford Coppola (an uncanny Dan Fogler), whose run-ins with the production team are well-storied, Ruddy’s life and the film’s production are made all the more difficult when local mob boss Joe Colombo (Giovanni Ribisi) – protective over the film’s depiction of the Italian community – decides he wants some provide some input on the picture.
With a stacked ensemble cast including Juno Temple, Matthew Goode, Anthony Ippolito, Colin Hanks, and Michael Gandolfini, and the promise of a story that will not only dig into off-camera drama, but how Coppola and his collaborators worked to create something so much more than a conventional gangster picture on screen, this is one Offer we most definitely can’t refuse.
The Offer hits Paramount+ in the US on 28 April, but with a UK launch date for the streaming service still not confirmed, we’ll likely have to wait a little longer than that.