Apocalypse Now Redux Screenplay - John Milius & Francis Ford Coppola

'Apocalypse Now Redux' by John Milius & Francis Ford Coppola (Faber & Faber 208-page paperback)

In May 1979, Francis Ford Coppola unveiled a "work in progress" cut of his film, Apocalypse Now, at the Cannes Film Festival. After winning the prestigious Palme d’Or, the convention-shattering film was nominated for eight Academy Awards and became a worldwide phenomenon. In 2001 Coppola introduced a new version – wholly re-edited from the original raw footage – that included forty-nine minutes of never-before-seen footage: Apocalypse Now Redux.

Apocalypse Now relocates Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella Heart of Darkness to the Vietnam War, focusing on the hazardous mission of Captain Willard to find and terminate ‘with extreme prejudice’ a renegade American colonel in Cambodia.