In 1976, Francis Ford Coppola was riding high in the world of cinema. The previous four years saw the critical and commercial success of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, both of which took home Oscars for Best Picture, and the latter winning Coppola additional awards for his direction and adapted screenplay. As one of the premier filmmakers working in Hollywood, it seemed as though the sky was the limit, and with his next project, Coppola would test his creative, financial, and psychological capacities in adapting Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella, Heart of Darkness. Penned by fellow scribe and director John Milius in the late '60s under the title Apocalypse Now, the film would shift the setting of Conrad's story from the jungles of Africa at the turn of the century to the deadly landscape of the Vietnam War.
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