Fredo Corleone was memorably warned by his brother Michael, ?Don?t ever take sides with anyone against the family again.? But now it looks as if a judge will have to come down on one side of the media empire that has grown up around the Corleone clan and the ?Godfather? novels that spawned them, in a lawsuit that pits Paramount Pictures, the studio that released the ?Godfather? movies, against Anthony Puzo, the executor of the estate of Mario Puzo, the author of the books.
Paramount has sued Anthony Puzo, a son of the novelist, seeking to stop publication of a new ?Godfather? novel called ?The Family Corleone,? Reuters reported. The studio says that it gave permission for a 2004 sequel, ?The Godfather Returns,? written by Mark Winegardner and published by Random House, but not for a 2006 follow-up, ?The Godfather?s Revenge,? also by Mr. Winegardner and published by Putnam.
The studio says in its lawsuit, filed Feb. 17 in U.S. District Court in New York, that the second sequel ?tarnished? the ?Godfather? series and misled readers to believe it had been authorized by Paramount. It is seeking an injunction to stop the release of ?The Family Corleone? by Ed Falco, which is planned by Grand Central Publishing for May, as well as unspecified damages, saying that it wants to ?protect the integrity of ?The Godfather? trilogy, one of the most acclaimed and beloved artistic works of the past 50 years.?
A lawyer for Mr. Puzo and a press representative for Grand Central Publishing did not immediately reply to requests for comment on Wednesday morning.
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