The Godfather Book Series to Continue With New Story About Connie Corleone in 2027

The communicative of the Corleone household is turning to the adjacent page, arsenic The Godfather is present acceptable to proceed with a caller publication called Connie successful 2027.

Publishing institution Random House told the Associated Press earlier this week that it had officially acquired a Godfather caller written by best-selling writer Adriana Trigiani. The caller has been authorized by the property of archetypal publication bid writer Mario Puzo and volition travel a communicative from the position of Don Vito Corleone's lone daughter.

"Connie is simply a caller astir however a pistillate works to forge her ain mode successful a satellite that's already decided who she is, what she's about, and however she should beryllium treated," Trigiani said successful a statement. "People underestimated Don Vito Corleone and Michael Corleone astatine their peril. The aforesaid volition beryllium existent for Connie Corleone."

The Godfather is nary uncertainty astir wide known arsenic the movie trilogy that manager Francis Ford Coppola started successful the '70s. Although the movies inactive basal arsenic immoderate of the astir quotable films successful the past of cinema decades aft their release, the Corleone family's roots really day backmost to Puzo's 1969 transgression novel, besides called The Godfather.

He went connected to proceed the communicative with a sequel titled The Sicilian successful 1984, and though a bid of further books – including The Godfather Returns, The Godfather's Revenge, and The Family Corleone – were published each the mode up to 2012, Connie volition beryllium lone the 3rd to person support from Puzo's estate.

Trigiani volition prime up the reins arsenic the archetypal estate-approved installment written by a woman. It's unclear however it volition grow connected the communicative of Connie Corleone, who was played by Coppola's sister, Talia Shire, successful the movies.

"We had been looking for idiosyncratic to retell the communicative from a caller perspective," Puzo's son, Anthony Puzo said successful a statement. "Adriana was knocked retired erstwhile I told her that the quality of Vito Corleone (played successful the films by Brando and De Niro) was really based connected my grandmother. We talked astir however the women ran some of our families, but down the scenes. Adriana's imaginativeness for Connie's beingness blew america each away. I'm precise pleased and excited to person her connected board."

Connie is expected to beryllium released successful autumn 2027. For more, you tin work what IGN thought astir EA's The Godfather video crippled from 2006.

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