Produced By: Francis Ford Coppola Says a Live 'Lawrence of Arabia' Could Happen — hollywoodreporter.com

Nattily dressed in a white suit and red socks brighter than any wine from his Napa vineyard, an avuncular writer-director-producer-executive and, yes, vintner Francis Ford Coppola entered the auditorium to a standing ovation and held forth in a “Conversation With” in the closing hours of the 2014 Produced By conference. Asked to describe how he juggled his many roles by interlocutor Hawk Koch, immediate past president of the conference presenter, the Producers Guild of America, Coppola offered an anecdote: he had set up a scene to be shot on a Monday for The Godfather: Part II which involved a reunion of Corleone family members from the first film, celebrating the birthday of the family patriarch. Over the weekend, he learned that Marlon Brando, dissatisfied with his paycheck on the first outing, had canceled. What to do?

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