Apocalypse Now By Francis Ford Coppola

The film releases in theaters on Aug. Photo by Brent N. The battles Coppola fought while making his epic nearly destroyed him. A typhoon wrecked a major set.

Harvey Keitel was replaced by Martin Sheen. Coppola searched desperately for an ending. He worked even harder to coax a few lines out of Marlon Brando.

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But out of that tumult Coppola created a masterpiece. Coppola has supervised a 4K restoration of the film and, for the second time, tweaked the cut. Coppola considers it the definitive version. It completes a four decade journey turning what was almost a mess into the masterwork he envisioned from the start.

Coppola has been working on the script and casting, and searching for production partners. What did you mean? Coppola: In the version when it first opened, the various people who had sponsored it and were distributing it felt that it was too long and too weird.

It stuck out less as something unusual. Coppola: The Vietnam War was different than other American wars. It was a West Coast sensibility rather than an East Coast sensibility.]