Al Pacino accepted an offer he couldn’t refuse in The Godfather, but his health almost did when it came to the sequel. The movie star wasn’t well-known in Tinsel Town when the first film came out. Bosses didn’t want to cast Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, and even considered Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson for the part. But writer Francis Ford Coppola who brought The Godfather to the silver screen from Mario Puzo’s book, was adamant he play the part. Luckily, he did. But The Godfather II, the 1974 sequel, almost took Al Pacino’s life as his health took a turn for the worst. Al Pacino almost d…