Mario Puzo's son sues Paramount over The Godfather game

Posted Jun 19th 2008 3:30PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: News

With the news that a second The Godfather game is in the works, Mario Puzo's son, Anthony, is none too pleased with the first game. We can only imagine how he feels about a sequel, considering he's suing Paramount over promised royalties from the first game, which were apparently never paid to the Puzo estate. The family is calling for $1 million in damages.

This stems back to 1992, where Paramount agreed to give the Puzos a share of revenues resulting from any subsequent audio-visual products based on the films.

[Via Joystiq]

Tags: anthony-puzo, ea, electronic-arts, lawsuit, mario-puzo, paramount, puzo, the-godfather

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6-19-2008 @ 11:09PM

anaris82 said...

They should get a tattoo like Jesse James (the bike builder, not the outlaw) has on one of his palms.. "Pay up Sucker".

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