While shooting The Godfather Part II on location in Trieste, Coppola told Italian journalists, “To some extent, I have become Michael.”
He damn near lost his mind while shooting Apocalypse Now in the jungles of Southeast Asia, a quagmire duly chronicled in the documentary Hearts of Darkness.
This means that the search is now on for actors who can deliver serviceable impressions of Coppola, Pacino, Brando, and presumably the rest of the film’s cast.
Francis Ford Coppola was a pretty intense dude during the ’70s.