Paramount+ has recently released the first teaser trailer for its upcoming series titled, The Offer. The all-new upcoming series is based on the infamously troubled production for The Godfather. The never-revealed experiences will be told through the eyes of Oscar-winning producer Albert S. Ruddy, who will be played by Miles Teller. The latest teaser trailer for The Offer was released during Paramount+'s virtual Television Critics Association presentation. You can check out the first official teaser trailer below.
"You've got brains, and you've got balls — try using both," Ruddy is told in the teaser by Paramount Studios chief Robert Evans. The Offer stars Miles Teller as Ruddy, Matthew Goode as legendary producer Robert Evans, Juno Temple as agent Bettye McCartt, Giovanni Ribisi as real-life crime boss Joe Colombo, Dan Fogler as director Francis Ford Coppola, Burn Gorman as industrialist Charles Bluhdorn, Colin Hanks as business tycoon Barry Lapidus, and Patrick Gallo as author Mario Puzo. Nikki Toscano will serve as showrunner, while Dexter Fletcher will direct the first block of the series.
Actor Miles Teller had ended up replacing Armie Hammer in the lead role for the series. Hammer exited the series in January 2021 amid allegations of sexual misconduct by several women. Filming for the series first began back in July 2021, and ran into some "production trouble" of its own due to positive COVID-19 tests, as well as the ongoing labor dispute in Château Marmont. The Offer comes from The Player writer Michael Tolkin, and has been confirmed to be a limited series.
"What sealed it for me was when Al said, 'Every day of making The Godfather was the worst day in my life,' and that told me we had a show," The Offer creator Michael Tolkin (Escape at Dannemora) told Vanity Fair in revealing the first look. "For every character in the film, getting it made or stopping it from being made was at the core of their actions, and it was a matter of life and death to them."
When Will The Offer Release on Paramount+?
It has been revealed that The Offer will release on Paramount+ on April 28. However, the upcoming limited series will air at different times over the span of a few weeks. It has been confirmed that the first three episodes will immediately be available for streaming on April 28, 2022, with the remaining episodes of the season debuting on a weekly basis on Thursdays. The Offer will consist a total of ten episodes. The current official synopsis for limited series reads as, Oscar-winning producer Albert S. Ruddy's never-before-revealed experiences of making The Godfather (1972).
The Godfather is a 1972 American epic crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same name. The film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte, and Diane Keaton. It is the first installment in The Godfather trilogy. The story, spanning from 1945 to 1955, chronicles the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando), focusing on the transformation of his youngest son, Michael Corleone (Pacino), from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss. Paramount Pictures had obtained the rights to the novel for a total of $80,000.
The Godfather was nominated for an astounding eleven Academy Awards and is widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made. The motion picture won three Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 97% approval rating based on 133 reviews, with an average rating of 9.40/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "One of Hollywood's greatest critical and commercial successes, The Godfather gets everything right; not only did the movie transcend expectations, it established new benchmarks for American cinema."