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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius , and Michael Herr , is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad , with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War .
Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, portrayed by Marlon Brando, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now.Colonel Kurtz is based on the character of a nineteenth-century ivory trader, also called Kurtz, from the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
Apocalypse Now: Francis Ford Coppola: A special forces officer is called in to locate and kill a rogue colonel [23] in a retelling of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. 1980 Italy The Last Hunter: Antonio Margheriti: Set in 1973, a US officer goes on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines to blow up an enemy propaganda radio station. 1981 UK
As with Apocalypse Now, Sheen was a late-inning replacement for another actor when he signed onto The Departed. But Scorsese instantly made him feel at home amidst the star-packed ensemble that ...
The actor reveals how his "Outsiders" pal Tom Cruise got killed off in a "Young Guns" cameo, what it was like bonding for "Breakfast Club" and why he didn't want to do "Mighty Ducks."
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"Now Apocalypse" is a departure for Tyler Posey, who shot to fame on MTV's long-running "Teen Wolf." In Gregg Araki's racy new Starz series, the actor, 27, plays Gabriel, a mysterious and elusive ...
Apocalypse Now Redux is a 2001 American extended version of Francis Ford Coppola's epic 1979 war film Apocalypse Now. Coppola, along with editor and longtime collaborator Walter Murch, added 49 minutes of material that had been removed from the initial theatrical release. It is a significant re-edit of the original version.