While the Apocalypse Now Final Cut is a step up from the Redux, and some consider it on the same level as the original, the first theatrical version will always be the definitive version of Francis Ford Coppola's classic post- Godfather movie and it is the tightest and most focused edit, though no less bizarre even with the stranger sequences cut out. What was even more exciting about Apocalypse Now: Final Cut was that the new 4k transfer was made from the original film negative rather than the interpositive used in all previous transfers of the film, so the final version is definitely the best-looking of all the versions and is the one that Coppola himself is most proud of. This version paid much more attention to the ecology of the film and works much better than Redux.
Related: Why Nicolas Cage Changed His Acting Name From Coppola Much as he'd reversed a big mistake forty years earlier when he fired original Apocalypse Now star Harvey Keitel, Coppola took in the criticisms of the Redux version and crafted a new version that trimmed back many of the added scenes or cut them out again entirely. The Apocalypse Now final version came out in 2019 and was a significant improvement of Apocalypse Now Redux. It's likely a miracle that it came out at all and even more so that its theatrical version became one of the greatest films of the 1970s.įorty years after the original version of Apocalypse Now was released, Francis Ford Coppola decided not only to oversee a brand-new restoration of the film but also to create a brand-new version. Apocalypse Now was a huge box office success and has since had an enduring legacy as a modern classic. Interestingly, Francis Ford Coppola has had to self-fund his films at times, and he had sunk so much money into the movie that he needed it to be a success, so Coppola consciously took out what he considered the weirder parts of the film to make sure it would appeal to a general audience. Related: Francis Ford Coppola Horror Movies, Ranked Despite the praise Apocalypse Now gained in the years since its release, the theatrical version is not the film that Coppola originally wanted to make (that would have to wait for Apocalypse Now: Final Cut in 2019). The entire production of this film became a media frenzy and many people thought it was going to be an absolute failure that would ruin Coppola's career. There were a number of "work in progress" versions of varying lengths shown to limited audiences and eventually a long version shown at the Cannes Film Festival that some loved and others hated.
The Apocalypse Now original theatrical version came out of this tortured process. The myriad production issues that are part of the true story behind Apocalypse Now's creation are mainly to blame for why so many versions of the film exist, and why it was 40 years later that Apocalypse Now: Final Cut finally came out. Understandably, it took Coppola and multiple full-time editors years to cut the footage into a presentable final product. Coppola shot over a million feet of film (a fully edited version of a typical 2-hour movie is roughly 11,000 feet of film). Sets were destroyed by weather, filming was interrupted by an actual civil war, and Martin Sheen had a near-fatal heart attack on set. Five months of shooting became a year of shooting. The documentary Hearts of Darkness : A Filmmaker's Apocalypse details everything that went wrong. Apocalypse Now was originally supposed to shoot over a five-month period in 1976 but, famously, the Francis Ford Coppola movie's production became a complete and utter disaster. Written by legendary screenwriter John Milius, it was originally going to be directed by George Lucas, who chose Star Wars instead and left Coppola to take over as director. The film follows a young army captain with PTSD who's given the assignment to venture into the jungle and assassinate a rogue American colonel who has gone insane.
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