John Deeth Blog

Duvall Had 'Godfather III' Money Issue

"If they paid Pacino twice what they paid me, that's fine, but not three or four times, which is what they did."

I always though that was the biggest thing wrong with 3, even bigger than Sofia Coppola: No Tom Hagen. It wasn't just the lack of Duvall's brilliant, subtle character in the Corleone mix. It was the fact that Coppola and Puzo massively rewrote the script to beef up the Hagen role in an attempt to lure Duvall. Then just when they thought he was in, he pulled back out (sorry). So they massively re-rewrote it to shrink the role and transmogrify it into the useless BJ Harrison.