I & II are classics....as for III,why did they bother? And as for a “making of”...not even slightly interested.
Exactly, we don't want to know "how the sausage is made."
Making of could be interesting. Not sure about a limited fictionalized series but I’d be interested to watch it. Though so far I have not subscribed to Paramount+. I hear Yellowstone is good.
There is an interesting documentary made almost entirely of still photos and voice over called “The Kid Stays in the Picture” about the life of Robert Evans, who spearheaded the Godfather picture, and Chinatown and many other masterful works of film as head of Paramount studios. Turned them around from the worst to the best studio in town.
Also, I’d like to learn more about GF2. As I understand it, he was sort of greenmailed into making it. He wanted to finance Apocalypse Now but the studio would only put up the cash if he made GF2. I don’t know how much of that is true. Apocalypse Now is another masterpiece. I am not sure if Robert Evans was head of Paramount when those were made. He might have gone to independent producing which became all the rage in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Studios became finance and distribution arms more than production companies.
Sphynx, you may enjoy The Kid Stays in the Picture. I enjoyed it. It’s not all that wholesome, but not really vulgar. It’s just pretty much an autobiography of Robert Evans, narrated by Evans and using his archives of photographs. Comes with all the good and bad things that happened in his life in the biz.
III was wonderful, if you appreciate Italian and Sicilian culture. Whomever dressed Diane Keaton totally missed the mark, but the rest was very meaningful—the growing corruption in the Vatican foreshadowed, the impossibility of leaving the mob life once you are in it, the effects on mobsters' grown children, and Michael's failed search for absolution. The scenery in Rome and Sicily and the music were wonderful. I have both the DVD and the CD.