The Godfather is considered one of the greatest American movies ever made, but it's the story behind the making of the classic that will be the subject of The Offer, an upcoming limited series debuting on Paramount Plus in April. Fitting, considering 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1972 movie (which got a re-release in movie theaters in February).

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, James Caan, Talia Shire and John Cazale, The Godfather took the world by storm when it was initially released. It eventually would win Best Picture at the Oscars and Best Actor for Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone (which we famously did not accept). In hindsight it’s easy to see how all those pieces came together and made a great movie, but as The Offer will show, that wasn’t the case when they were putting everything together.