Francis Ford CoppolaProving Murphy's Law Was the Force with Francis Ford Coppola when he made Apocalypse Now? At first, it didn't seem like it. Coppola had been nurturing John Milius, the screenwri...

John Milius, Francis Ford CoppolaWar's #1 FanJohn Milius wanted to get his war on. A young surfer and aspiring screenwriter from St. Louis, he desired nothing more than to fight in Vietnam. He was...

American Zoetrope (with United Artists)In 1969, Francis Ford Coppola decided to give a young, war-obsessed screenwriter named John Milius a shot. He paid him fifteen thousand bucks to write the def...

35mm FilmApocalypse Now was shot in film—35mm. Digital wasn't a thing yet. The film was one of the first to use 70mm six-track Dolby Surround Sound. Bring Out Your Dead The problems involved in m...

Francis Ford Coppola and Carmine Coppola"The End"… at the Beginning Arranging the music for Apocalypse Now was a father and son job: Francis Ford Coppola worked at it with his dad, Carmine. They...

People who like deep, thought-provoking cinema love Apocalypse Now. So do people who love violence. Apocalypse Now caters to both the sophisticated cinephile and the lover of explosions and severed...