While Cage lobbied hard for a role in the film, turns out that was an offer his uncle could refuse (via toofab)
"This is a very embarrassing answer to your question, OK, because it involves family. So Uncle [Francis Ford Coppola] was doing 'Godfather III,' and I said, 'I really think I ought to be in your movie, Uncle. I really think it's a good idea if you would cast me. I think I could play this part," Cage explained.
The role in question was Vincent Corleone, with Coppola looking to cast Andy Garcia in the role at the time. Other names reportedly in the running for the part were Alec Baldwin, Charlie Sheen, Billy Zane, Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Val Kilmer, Vincent Spano and Robert De Niro. "He was going to cast Andy Garcia, and I said, 'But I just see myself more as James Caan's son, and he's playing Sonny’s son. He's not playing Michael's son. He's Sonny's son. I just feel a little more James Caan,'" Cage continued.
Alas, his pleas were in vain."It just wasn't going to happen. Nope, not going to happen," added Cage,"So that was a movie I didn't get let in that I really wanted to be in. There." Garcia kept the role and after appearing in"The Cotton Club,""Rumble Fish" and"Peggy Sue Got Married" in the '80s, Cage didn't appear in another of his uncles films.
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