What does a movie producer do? ‘The Offer,’ a series about the making of ‘The Godfather,’ provides an answer
A few years ago, ahead of the 2019 Oscars, I wrote a column that started with a simple question: What does a movie producer do? Despite the ubiquity of the term, it’s a job title that fails to capture the day-to-day work itself. Director? Sure, most of us have a decent idea of what that means. Screenwriter? That too. Production designer, stunt coordinator, music supervisor? Same. But producer? What does a producer even do?
The new limited series “The Offer” on Paramount+ is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of “The Godfather” in the early 1970s. It’s told primarily from the point of view of the movie’s producer Al Ruddy, and it might be one of the best distillations of what a producer actually does,
