BRANDO RECORDED VOICE TRACKS FOR GODFATHER GAME

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BRANDO RECORDED VOICE TRACKS FOR GODFATHER GAME
Thursday, February 3 2005

Despite a report on Wednesday that in 1972 Marlon Brando had originally refused an offer to appear as Don Corleone in The Godfather because he didn't want to "glorify the Mafia," he recorded voice tracks for a video game shortly before his death which may appear to do just that. Game publishers Electronic Arts confirmed Wednesday that Brando had recorded the tracks for a game in which the players take the role of aspiring mobsters hoping to become the leader of a crime family. James Caan and Robert Duvall, who also appeared in the 1972 movie, recorded voice tracks for the film as well, Electronic Arts said.

BRANDO INITIALLY REJECTED OSCAR-WINNING GODFATHER ROLE
Wednesday, February 2 2005

Veteran writer Budd Schulberg (What Makes Sammy Run, On the Waterfront, A Face in the Crowd) says that originally Marlon Brando refused to play Don Corleone in The Godfather, because, "It's about the Mafia. I won't glorify the Mafia." Schulberg, who turns 91 next month and was a longtime friend of Brando, recalls in the new issue of Vanity Fair magazine that when Brando's assistant, Alice Marchak, after repeatedly prodding him to take the part, (more)

MARLON BRANDO -- THE NOVELIST?
Friday, October 8 2004

A film-treatment-turned-novel by the late Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell has been picked up by Knopf, which plans to "tidy up" the manuscript and release it in Sept., 2005, the New York Post reported today (Friday). As a film treatment, Fan-tan, was originally rejected by film studios, and Brando had reportedly dragged his feet on turning the story, described by the Post as being about "a swashbuckling sailor in the South China Sea who meets (more)