“I don’t think ‘Godfather’ ever should have had more than one movie, actually. It was not a serial, it was a drama. The first movie wrapped up everything. To make more than one Godfather was just greed. Basically, making a movie costs so much money that they want it to be like Coca-Cola: you just make the same thing over and over again to make money, which is what they’re doing now. But Godfather was not really a serial, you know? I mean, how would you spin off Hamlet? — Francis Ford Coppola admits he was greedy… or uhh, misguided in making more than one “The Godfather” film. Hey, we’ll agree with you about ‘III,’ and the deadwood that was Sofia (sorry, Sofia), but c’mon ‘II’ is classic shit, Francis!
Coppola skirts the question about “The Godfather IV,” but truth is he already admitted in interviews that he wanted to do a fourth one because Mario Puzzo was deadbroke, dying and he wanted to help his pal out, but the death of the author obviously put the kibosh on all of it. [Movieline]