Overview
- Random House, which shared the news through the Associated Press over the weekend, said bestselling author Adriana Trigiani will write Connie for a fall 2027 release.
- Connie will center on Don Vito Corleone’s daughter and marks the first Godfather novel written from a woman’s point of view by a woman.
- Anthony Puzo said the estate sought a new perspective and approached Trigiani after she wrote about the series’ overlooked women.
- Paramount holds the screen rights after a past legal settlement and is developing a related screen project, according to reports, with no production details yet.
- The novel is only the third continuation approved by the Puzo estate, extending a landmark franchise that began with Mario Puzo’s 1969 book and Francis Ford Coppola’s films.