Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse Page #2
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- Year:
- 1991
- 96 min
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Without a studio,
Apocalypse Now was shelved,
and Francis put his dreams
for Zoetrope on hold.
He went on to direct
The Godfather Parts I and I I.
The films won eight Academy Awards
and made Francis a multimillionaire.
In 1975, he revived his plans
for Zoetrope
and chose Apocalypse Now
as its first project.
I was in the position whereas I wanted
to always write original work.
Original work really takes
six, eight months minimum to do,
and here was the script of Apocalypse
and send out immediately.
So I basically said,
"Well, what if I just
did Apocalypse Now?"
And in doing so,
we were able to make our company
independent and further our goal.
But nothing really prepared me
for the date I had
with trying to do a modern telling
of Heart of Darkness
in a Vietnam setting.
Mike, would you read Kilgore?
Glenn, I'd like you to read... No.
I'll wait for a minute.
I'd like Tommy, you read Willard.
Freddy's gonna read Chef.
And, Sam, you read Lance.
And, Albert, you read Chief, okay?
Let's just... What we'll do now,
we'll just read it, just to read it,
to know what we're doing.
Apocalypse Now has been budgeted
at $13 million.
In order to maintain creative control,
Francis had to raise the money himself.
If the film goes over budget,
Francis is responsible.
He has put up our personal assets
as collateral.
of Francis' money was in it.
But that was Francis' style.
His philosophy was always,
and remains to this date is,
"I'm gonna go and make the movie.
"And if everybody knows
I'm going to make it,
"it will fall into place.
"And if I don't go forward
as if I'm making it and start making it,
"nothing will happen. "
My attitude towards money has always
been, "I don't have very much of it,
"but if I use it in a very audacious way,
it multiplies it."
If you have $ 1,000, but you're willing
to use it, really not caring of risking,
you can make it feel like $ 10,000.
Marlon Brando has sent word
that he will do the part of Kurtz.
Brando has agreed to three weeks
of shooting at a million dollars a week.
Francis sent him a $1 million advance.
After auditioning dozens of actors,
Harvey Keitel has been cast
as Captain Willard.
For the four-man boat crew
who will take Willard upriver,
Sam Bottoms will play Lance.
Albert Hall, Chief.
Frederic Forrest, Chef,
and Larry Fishburne, age 14,
will play Mr. Clean.
I mean, a war is fun. Sh*t.
You can do anything you want to.
That's why Vietnam must
have been so much fun
for the guys that were out there.
I mean, like, I know this one dude
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