![]() Following his successes with The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and The Conversation, Coppola agreed to direct the movie. ![]() The movie he eventually made was Star Wars. The project languished in development for years, and Lucas eventually dropped out of the project to direct a script he had written. After years of development, the plan was to have George Lucas shoot the movie on 16mm black and white film in Stockton, California on a shoestring budget in a pseudo-documentary style similar to the famous war film The Battle of Algiers. The script Coppola liked out of the bunch his friends gave him was Milius’s Apocalypse Now. Pictures to produce films from new scripts. Apocalypse Now was supposed to be directed by George Lucas.Īfter directing 1969's The Rain People, Francis Ford Coppola’s production company, American Zoetrope, was given a development deal from Warner Bros. The would-be filmmaker’s Vietnam-focused mind and Blacker’s challenge gave Milius the idea of combining the two in what would eventually become Apocalypse Now. There, during a lecture, a professor named Irwin Blacker convinced the class that no screenwriter had ever perfected a film adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness. Instead, he studied film at USC with fellow classmate and Star Wars creator George Lucas. ![]() Marine Corps to fight in the Vietnam War in 1968, but was deferred due to his asthma. ![]() Milius attempted to volunteer for the U.S. Screenwriter John Milius credits his obsession with war from never getting to fight in one. Screenwriter John Milius was inspired to write Apocalypse Now because of his college English professor. Here are some things you might not have known about director Francis Ford Coppola’s loose adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, which arrived in theaters on August 15, 1979. We love the smell of facts in the morning. ![]()
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