 Paramount tried to go ahead with the film for many years without  Francis Ford Coppola (qv) who had refused to make another sequel.  About twelve scripts were written. Most of the scripts included the  Corleone family being led by Michaels son Anthony, battling the  CIA, Castros Cuban government, or South American drug cartels. A  1978 draft by Mario Puzo (qv) dealt with Anthony Corleone being  recruited by the CIA to assassinate a Latin American dictator.  Dean Riesner (qv) also wrote a draft based on Puzos ideas. Drafts  were also written by Paramount producers Michael Eisner (I) (qv)  and Don Simpson (I) (qv). The film was scheduled for a Christmas  1980 release date. These scripts were discarded when Coppola decided  to work on the script with Puzo. But Coppola eventually abandoned  the project. Puzo wrote another script in 1986 with producer  Nicholas Gage (qv) that featured Sonny Corleones illegitimate son  Vincent Mancini while showing the early life of the young Sonny  Corleone. Paramount considered directors Martin Scorsese (qv),  Sidney Lumet (qv), Costa