The Offer: Paramount+ Series Season 1 Review

Created: 01/10/2023 15:34

Photo from the series The Offer © Paramount+

Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 film adaptation of the bestselling The Godfather is still considered one of the greatest screen classics of all time.

An elaborate mini-series on Paramount+, a streaming service that is still new in this country, is about the turbulent history of its origins.

The genesis of the screen adaptation of "The Godfather" was just as exciting as the classic film itself, which was nominated for eleven Oscars and won three of them, at least if you go by this making-of in the form of the drama mini-series "The Offer" (here on the criticism of the pilot episode).

How many of the described, sometimes extremely turbulent events actually took place in this way and what of them the screenwriters around showrunner Michael Tolkin (who became known through the novel and the screenplay of the film "The Player" based on it) artistically embellished remains of course left to the viewer's mind.

Albert S. Ruddy (Miles Teller, "Top Gun: Maverick"), who works for the renowned RAND Corporation, would like to get involved as a career changer in the film and television business in Hollywood in the 1960s.

He succeeds when he and actor Bernard Fein (Kyle S. More, "Killing Reagan") pitch for a comedy series called "A Cage Full of Heroes" on the TV network CBS.

How it goes on and whether the series is worth seeing, you can read at serial junkies.de.