Coppola 's Apocalypse Now 1979.
The Coppola restoration on Blu-ray 2008.
Coppola gave in- what choice did he have?
Coppola seemed interested in them too.
I always wanted to work with Coppola.
Eventually, Coppola's daughter Sofia Coppola was cast in the role.
Francis Ford Coppola was not the first choice to direct.
This time Coppola read the book all the way through.
Lucas laughed him off, but Coppola may have been onto something.
Coppola doesn't need to stretch his fortune out for 60 years.
Coppola considered all this and then decided to go his own way.
Coppola just asked if he could come over and film a“makeup test.”.
Francis Ford Coppola has been in competition with Bob Fosse on several occasions.
Coppola thought that this overwrought feel was perfect
for conveying just who Don Corleone was.
At their meeting, Brando told Coppola he thought the Godfather should look“like a bulldog.”.
Coppola later stated that the horse's head was
delivered to him from a dog food company;
Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now(1979)
reflected the moral confusion that the war had caused in the US.
Coppola also had someone in mind to play the character of the Don's youngest son,
Michael Corleone.
Coppola first gained international critical attention for his screenwriting talents,
earning an Academy Award for 1970's Patton.
Coppola was nominated as best director, and he
and Puzo won the award for best adapted screenplay.….
He produced the soundtrack for FrancisFordCoppola's 1981 film OnefromtheHeart,
and subsequently made cameo appearances in several Coppola films.
Francis Ford Coppola told Variety,"There were many people killed in that movie,
but everyone worries about the horse.
Nicolas Kim Coppola(born January 7,
1964), known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor, director and producer.
Coppola also gives credit to the work of Elia Kazan
and for its influence on him as a director.
Francis Ford Coppola invested $7 million dollars of his own
money in the movie after it went severely over budget.
To get the movie made, Francis Ford Coppola had to come to certain agreements with different groups of Italian-Americans.
Coppola's breakthrough came with The Godfather(1972),
a brilliant, enormously successful, muscular adaptation of Mario Puzo's blockbuster novel of the same name.
After witnessing the overwhelming popularity of Star Wars,
director Francis Ford Coppola told George Lucas he should start his own religion.
Francis Ford Coppola had each of his parents,
his sister, two of his sons, and his daughter appear in the trilogy.