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Gee, I wonder why Godfather II FAILED. Maybe something was missing. Perhaps a very important character and the namesake of the whole fucking franchise. Salvatore "The Godfather" Tessio, anyone?Sequels used to bomb more often than not at the box office. Godfather II made less than half of the first movie. Aliens made the same as Alien despite a massive marketing campaign. It's usually rare for a franchise to make more money in its sequels than the first. And sequels usually get double the marketing of the first so you make even less money in the long run.
Whenever a sequel makes more than the first film you usually get a franchise like those Saw horror movies where they make 20 of them.
They should've just used my screenplay, The Godfather 2: Full Throttle. I wrote a whole fucking badass action movie which was eventually stolen and turned into "The Transporter" with Jason Statham.
I used to show up to the set trying to get people to read it and I wasn't allowed in. One time I grabbed ahold of Bobby Deniro through a hole in a fence and wouldn't let go of him. I didn't hurt him or anything, I just held him there for 3 minutes while like 10 people tried to pull me off. I put an ancient gypsy curse on him lol. It worked too.