[ek_hornbeck]

Did you know they cast Brando as the Don before the script was written. The part was written for him with him in mind.

I don't think that's true. Laurence Olivier was originally cast in the part, he even learned to mimic the speech patterns of Italian-American ghetto English quite well to do the role. I don't remember the details of why he was replaced by Brando, but Olivier was Coppola's first choice.

[central_va]

The cast was great with three weak points IMO Talia Shire(Coppola’s sister),Diane Keaton and James Caan.