I’m talking about a Paramount Plus gem that’s more than a year late, but still worth mentioning. For any film fan, the behind-the-scenes story behind the filming of The Godfather, which turned 50 in 2022, is a soap opera in itself. It was recorded in the biography of the film’s producer, Albert S. Ruddy, who was still a beginner at the time, and which recounts how he had the legendary Robert Evans as a mentor and found himself in the middle of corporate, political, executive and even mafia fights (literally ). It’s a story as fascinating as the one imagined by Mario Puzo and transformed into a saga by Francis Ford Coppola and is the narrative of The Offer, the 10-episode miniseries that has been on the platform since 2022.

It seems that drama is the DNA of everything involving the fictional Corleone: the troubled years of production of the films (we followed the 1st, but said goodbye when they were already taking care of the 2nd) mirrored the difficulties of the series itself in getting off the ground. Production began in 2020, with Armie Hammer being cast to play Ruddy, but as he was experiencing serious personal problems, he withdrew the following month and was replaced by Miles Teller in May 2021. Due to COVID-19, recordings were interrupted, and when returned, labor disputes also delayed production. Be that as it may, it premiered in April 2022, to good reviews, although nothing astronomical.

Written and produced by Nikki Toscano and Michael Tolkin, The Offer is a delight for anyone who loves Hollywood stories, especially those who have already seen the great documentary about Evans – The Kid Stay in the Picture – it’s fun, true and a lesson in how is that classics are made.

Miles Teller is great as Ruddy, but the series is stolen by Matthew Goode, who doesn’t look like Evans, but who wins the best role precisely because of the legend he was. Another one that has fun – and entertains us – is Burn Gorman playing the CEO of Paramount, Guf+Western, Charles Bluhdorn. Furthermore, it is a parade of famous names behind the scenes and on screen, with actors trying to imitate the real ones and others simply passing by on the screen without leaving any major impressions.

The great joke of the title, messing with the most famous phrase of “the offer that cannot be refused” is to follow Ruddy’s adventure precisely negotiating uninterruptedly for The Godfather to hit the screens. But in fact, we really wanted to have more about the brilliance of Robert Evans, which would lead to at least two or three series like these.

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