The son of Mario Puzo, the author who wrote the story of "The Godfather", plans to drag Paramount Pictures to court because the company didn’t share the revenues from a video game based on the story which his father wrote in a successful book which then became the source of an award-winning movie.

Anthony Puzo of New York filed suit against Paramount Pictures on Wednesday June 18 in the Los Angeles Superior Court. He is seeking at least $1 million in damages for breach of contract. According to court papers, Puzo’s son claimed that Paramount signed a contract with his father in 1992 which they breached. The contract stipulated that Paramount would give Puzo an important share of the revenue of any audio-visual products sold or rented with elements of the "Godfather" movies.

"In material breach of the audio-visual products agreement, Paramount has failed and refused to pay the Puzo Estate the sums due it in respect of the Godfather game," the court filing said.

Since then, Puzo died in 1999 at the age of 78 and left his estate to his descendants, but Paramount sold Electronic Arts in 2006 the license to produce and distribute a game based on the characters and story lines of the 1972 "Godfather" movie. After that deal, two Godfather-based movies were made.

The agreement between Mario Puzo and Paramount was signed in the above mentioned manner and the writer was paid a very low sum for the film rights because he was a "young, relatively unknown author, struggling to support his family" at that time as the court documents put it.

With the starring of actors such as Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton and many other stars, Puzo’s story, which spans ten years from 1945 to 1955 and chronicles the Italian-American Corleone crime family, was turned into a film which today has become almost legendary.