Interesting how Francis Ford Coppola’s most famous movies: Apocalypse Now, Godfather 1-2, are not what he was interested in making, but varying circumstances got him in the directing chair

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Yup!

@davidjames579

6 ай бұрын

He only agreed to do Godfather 2 to get The Conversation made.

@someguy42093

6 ай бұрын

@@davidjames579 and only did part iii to pay off his debts for one from the heart.

@davidjames579

6 ай бұрын

@@someguy42093 According to Coppola also Bram Stoker's Dracula, Jack and The Rainmaker as well. Then he took 10 years off because he no longer had to make movies.

The idea of it being very hand held and “new footage” like sounds interesting and it would of been cool… I hope George Lucas gets to make one more movie the way he wants before he dies, dude has earned it

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

I heard he makes personal experimental films but only shows his friends

@knurdyob

6 ай бұрын

​​@@Bulletsandblockbusterswith how predatory and toxic the relationship between films and audiences can be I'm honestly not surprised he went that route. Coppola didn't mind showing the world his more recent personal films and people lost respect for him creatively. I do hope one day, maybe even after George Lucas passes, we will get to see his personal projects.

@theparkinglotcities

6 ай бұрын

I mean, nobody's holding him back.

@sporeham1674

6 ай бұрын

​​@@theparkinglotcitiesthe droves of "fans" who would tear it apart probably is He's kinda emotionally sensitive like that it seems

@chrisburton339

6 ай бұрын

Having sold LucasFilm for 4 with nine zeroes, I’m guessing he doesn’t want to.

Speaking of original versions, I wish we could see how Radioland Murders would have turned out had the original script been used. George Lucas said Universal agreed to make the film if some stuff got changed in the script, and he admitted to regret that

@thomasjoyce7910

6 ай бұрын

Kathleen Kennedy's soft reboot of that franchise will fix everything.

@sharifmansour9678

6 ай бұрын

I still love the finished film.

@asimmatin3507

5 ай бұрын

Radioland Murders was originally intended to be a prequel to American Graffiti. The Brian BenBen and Mary Stuart Masterson characters are the parents of the Richard Dreyfuss character. That idea was abandoned, but in the finished film they still have the same last name of Henderson.

@someguy42093

5 ай бұрын

Who cares about raidioand murders? That has nothing to do what apocalypse now and that movie sucks anyway.

@MrShinnickNeth

2 ай бұрын

@@someguy42093that's probably why he's wondering about it...

Personally, I think Lucas version could've been pretty cool, but at the same time, I'm glad and beyond happy we got Coppolas version instead. I think his version made for one of the best and most memorable movies and experiences of all time, and had some of the greatest acting and imagery ever put on film.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Agreed. Milius agrees as well. Even if it took him a while to come around

@someguy42093

6 ай бұрын

It’s amazing that Coppola didn’t even g want to make that movie and I personally think it’s his best.

Lucas did kind of incorporate that vision for the Vietnam segments of More America Graffiti, which are the best parts of that film. As always, great stuff!

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

100% and thanks!

As much as I love both Godfathers and Apocalypse Now, The Conversation is really Coppola's Masterpiece. Unbelievably great film.

"I love the sound of TIE fighters in the morning. They sound like...victory. Someday this war's gonna end." -- Colonel Kellgor -- Imperial Army, 19th Legion

The thumbnail goes hard

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

😎

In 1991 Walter Murch said that there is a version of Apocalypse Now directed by George Lucas. It just happens to be called Star Wars.

@lucasoheyze4597

3 ай бұрын

Pretty dumb thing to say.

@asimmatin3507

3 ай бұрын

@@lucasoheyze4597 Well, if you think that's a dumb statement, I guess that means you're smarter than Walter Murch. That's why he has three Academy Awards and you're just posting on KZread from your basement.

I LOVE that he called it psychedelic. I’ve always called it that too. A psychedelic war film. Just like 2001: a space odyssey is psychedelic sci-fi snd Dead Man is psychedelic western.

It's refreshing to see a video about George Lucas that isn't made by an angry manchild and by someone who is fair. Apocalypse Now is amazing as it is and I'm still interested in Lucas' version of the film. But also imo Coppola was in the right to take control of the project because Lucas kept on getting busy with other things and if nobody stepped in, there'd be no Apocalypse Now at all. Lucas did kind of end up showing us what he would've done with More American Graffiti's Vietnam storyline and each scene in it looked great. Truly an underrated gem, that whole film. Also he did go to Vietnam to film that storyline which is cool.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thanks and well said!

@jamesanthony9316

6 ай бұрын

Let's get real though, Apocalypse Now is a masterpiece becuase Coppola is in a much higher tier of director to Lucas. There can't be any convincing apologetic that could argue for Lucas producing a work of this quality.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

While I agree with that, I still think the Lucas from the 70s would’ve pulled something worthwhile off, albeit different from what Coppola ended up turning the script into.

@JihadiFemboy

6 ай бұрын

@@Bulletsandblockbusters 👍

@JihadiFemboy

6 ай бұрын

@@jamesanthony9316 You do realise that Coppola and the other movie brats all admire Lucas' talent right? Spielberg became Lucas' friend because of how amazed he was with the student version of THX 1138 lmao

The Image of The ATATs and Tie Fighters flying and walking over the Setting of Apocalypse Now is one of the greatest Mashup pictures I have ever seen I am gonna Print a Picture of it and put in a frame, it is so fucking awesome

@Bulletsandblockbusters

4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@sumthingwikked4257

3 ай бұрын

"This is the end..." *BRRRRWOOOOORRRR* *PEW PEW* *BOOM*

@bluetrailerproductions7488

2 ай бұрын

​@@sumthingwikked4257 Hell Yeah

Wow.. never knew Lucas was involved ..amazing what if cinema history moment

@wet-read

26 күн бұрын

It reminds me of how Kubrick was initially going to do A.I. Artificial Intelligence, but gave it to Spielberg.

I’d like to see a video about the original plans for Alien 3.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

It’s on the to do list

Man you changed the thumbnail the walker things really looked like a Star wars themed horror movie

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Yeah it wasn’t getting a high click through rate. I think it was confusing for people.

Coppola thought that Apocalypse Now was such an important and necessary addition to culture and discussion that if he died he seriously said that George Lucas should take over direction. If George died because of the craziness of the filming, John Millius should take over. And if after that Millius also died from the production, Coppola pondered if he should ask Ken Russell to be on fourth standby.

_Apocalypse Now_ remains perhaps my favorite film so far (tied with _Cinema Paradiso: the New Version)._ I credit it as the film that got me to start thinking about and discussing films seriously as a teenager, because after my first viewing, I felt like I'd watched literature (and didn't know it was an adaptation of sorts). Thanks for this interesting backstory of the twists and turns that produced this great work.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it

Brilliant stuff ❤ I love this channel because there's always the what could have been which always sounds really interesting. Although at the expense of the films we love and have grown up with, it's like some kind of catch-22.

Probably one of the best if not the best video of yours I've seen so far, thanks for the great work

@Bulletsandblockbusters

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it

This has to be one of your best videos. Great stuff

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! Really appreciate that. I’m pretty happy with it tho there’s a longer version I like even more with more interview footage.

Tangent: I wish we could've seen Empire Strikes Back directed by David Lynch, who Lucas asked to direct.

Thanks for the video. George Lucas version sounds interesting ❤

Can’t thank you enough for bringing this to my attention.

Strap in boys, i love the smell of bullets and blockbusters in the morning 😊

I can’t help but laugh every time i see young Milius and realize he’s Walter from big lebowski

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Haha 💯

The George Lucas version sounds like it could've been awesome, and I would've really liked to see it, but at the same time, Francis Ford Coppola’s version is still one of the best films of all time.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Agreed!

@sgauden02

6 ай бұрын

@@Bulletsandblockbusters One idea George Lucas had to have a team get actual footage of the war and intercut it with the film to make you feel like you are actually there right in the action was pretty genius as well. But it may have been controversial.

That first thumbnail slapped!

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thnx but it was performing poorly

@JesusFreak8824

6 ай бұрын

@Bulletsandblockbusters Gotcha. Well I loved it. How do you gauge if the thumbnail is affecting the performance of the video?

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! Maybe I'll switch it back. I can see all the data under the hood. So for a thumbnail I can see at what rate people click it to watch the video. Although it's possible that people just aren't as interested in apocalypse now and it has nothing to do with the thumbnail.

Yes!!! Thank you.

One of the most interesting war films I ever saw

I can't remember if anyone's mentioned this: but George Lucas eventually got to put his Apoc Now filming style to use. He produced More American Graffiti, which has its Vietnam War sequences shot in 16mm docu style. Coincidentally both films feature cameos by Harrison Ford. And both were released on the same day.

Definitely fascinated by Lucas’ version, but I think Coppola’s vision was for the better as I believe the theatrical presentation and brutal confrontation of how war destroys the human psyche makes for a greater visceral punch thematically and emotionally, with the contrast being complimentary in this instance. Could I be biased for it’s my favorite movie of all time? Likely, but my first viewing is still ingrained in my brain, and I believe the presentation especially owes to that.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

I’m with you. Coppola definitely elevated the material.

Watching this makes me stoked for Megapolis. Coppola is back and doing his thing, his way. Great video!

@Bulletsandblockbusters

4 ай бұрын

I hope it’s great 🤞

Interestingly The Battle of Algiers was also the inspiration for Andor.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

I didn’t know that. But very interesting. Not surprised tho. It’s like poetry. It rhymes.

@user-yl4lf9mh1w

6 ай бұрын

haha yep it really does rhyme. The showrunner for Andor tried to make that show true to who George is and did a ton of research. They also put battle of Algiers musical themes from the film into the funeral march music in the final episode. It's very cool.@@Bulletsandblockbusters

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

That’s awesome. Thanks for sharing that.

Would have really liked to see the Lucas version of Apocalypse Now

This is my favoorite channel on YT right now

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Lucas' Apocalypse Now idea does sound pretty cool, but honestly we would've eventually gotten seven special editions of it by today had he directed it. So, all-in-all, glad to see that Coppola directed it instead.

Hey idk how much stuff there is on this topic but an idea for a video could be the troubled productions on dark phoenix like how they wanted to use skrulls at first but had to change. Like I said idk how much there is on this topic but it’s just an idea

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Will look into it

"Neolithic jingoism" is spot on Millius is like "my parts were all the parts you liked" Uh yeah, John, I read your script. No, no they weren't

Great video as always but I love that thumbnail artwork. The Ties and AT ATs against the red. Where did you get that? It did you make it? I want!

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! I made it :)

I don't know if Millius knew but Apocalypse Now wouldn't have been the first American movie set during The Vietnam War to be shot there during it. That honor belongs to A Yank In Vietnam (1964). Actually shot there during the war, it also uses American Army personnel and equipment. As that and the title suggests it's a more pro-American Army than Coppola and Lucas had in mind.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing that. I haven’t heard of that film. I’ll check it out!

I read the script.....insanity

This is one of those situations were i wish we got both versions, ffc is the goat thought

Imagine if Star Wars had been filmed black and white documentary style... It would've been amazing.

While I love Apocalypse Now as it is, I’d be lying if I didn’t say I would like to have seen George Lucas’s version of this. Of course he would have made Apocalypse Now if THX-1138 was the major success he had hoped it would have been, but since it wasn’t a major success upon release, he made American Graffiti after Coppola bet that he couldn’t make a comedy and then Star Wars as well as creating the Indiana Jones franchise, doing the sequels to A New Hope, later the Prequels as well as writing and producing other films as well as developing more technology so that film could look and sound better. With the original Star Wars being my favorite film of all time, I guess I can say that I’m happy he didn’t do Apocalypse Now to an extent as he made Star Wars over Apocalypse Now since he got things going for that film around the time Coppola wanted to make Apocalypse Now, but I would have still loved to have seen his vision of the film. It’s one of those What If stories that we can talk about, but I also think perhaps in the end, things ended up the way they did for the best for everyone involved. Lucas created two of the biggest franchises of all time as well as develop a lot of excellent technology to make films better and Coppola made Apocalypse Now what it is that we talk about today. Great video man, keep up the great work!

Milius sure seems like a charmer.

When it was said Walter in The Big Lebowski is based on John Millius, I didn't realize how close that is. Millius here looks and sounds like John Goodman!

@Bulletsandblockbusters

17 күн бұрын

💯

oh man this is going to be a good 1

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

He’s back!

It's so funny to me how Milius says his contributions to the film are supposed "all the parts I like" and then all the parts that got changed are the ones that I actually loved

I had the 1000th like! 🏆

Overall quite interesting, but hard to believe that there was no mention of the fact that all the Vietnam sequences of Toad in More American Graffiti are shot on 16mm film just as Lucas had proposed for his version of Apocalypse Now. Especially given that George Lucas was Executive Producer on More American Graffiti which is based on his original material. It’s highly effective too as it allows for rather seamless blending of real 16mm footage alongside what was shot for the movie and also feeling more raw and realistic because it seems so familiar.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

Ай бұрын

I was going to mention it but besides shooting those sequences on 16mm, he doesn’t shoot them the same way he planned to in Apoc Now.

Speaking of Coppola, you should do The Godfather Part 3 and 4! 😃

I would have loved to see the Empire land in Vietnam and take it using TIE fighters, AT-AT walkers, AT-ST walkers, speeder bikes, and a hovering Star Destroyer hanging out above in the upper atmosphere.

Please do a video on what could have been battleship 2

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

I’ll look into it!

Thank goodness Coppola held strong and made his vision and ignoring those two massive egos. Milius sounds like a money grubbing fool. He just loved the movie AFTER it started being called a masterpiece and making $$. I love the fevered dream surrealism of the final product.

While Lucas obviously made his legacy set with Star Wars, Star Wars was also what kept him away from directing different movies like American graffiti pretty much for good, which is kind of a bummer bc I’m curious what kind of movies Lucas could have made without Star Wars consuming all of his time

So "Dispatches" inspired not one, but two Classic Anti-War Movies. I believe it was also the basis for, "Full Metal Jacket."

Top video presentation. Tom, Brussels.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

5 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

@tombaker4586

5 ай бұрын

@@Bulletsandblockbusters it's true...

Please do what could have been Francis ford Coppolas The Godfather part IV

What's the name of the background music?

They should have sent Milius to Nam and let him make the movie his way.

What!? George Lucas was going to make Apocalypse Now!?

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Yup!

Milius was always a troll and a provocateur so I think most of the stuff he said is just him getting a rise out of people.

bullets & blockbusters

It's funny how Milius wanted to prove Heart of Darkness could be adapted. I haven't read the book myself, but is the film really anything like it? In addition to completely changing the timeline, it sounds like a lot of other changes happened, to the point where it might unrecognizable.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, but thanks to Coppola who put more of the book back into the film.

@jamesanthony9316

6 ай бұрын

Yes its actually a perfect adaptation because it does something original with the source material to tell a contemporary story. The same way that Joyce's Ulysses is an adaptation of the Odyssey. A direct page for page adaptation of a text to a visual medium is often uninspired and inevitably always a lesser work. Let's get real here though, Apocalypse Now is a masterpiece and this is largely because Coppola is in a different tier of director to Lucas. We should be very grateful Lucas got nowhere near the finished work.

@SnarkyMcCarthy

6 ай бұрын

@@jamesanthony9316Page-for-page recreations of the source material are boring and don’t take advantage of the specific medium. I prefer adaptations that are faithful to the source material’s SPIRIT rather than text. I think Lucas’ version would have been admirable but not legendary.

never knew Lucas was involved with this at all

Interesting 🤔

So is Jabba the Hutt based on Marlon Brando-whose character (in Apocalypse Now, which Lucas was dissed out of directing) had to be rewritten into a despot who just laid there, because he showed up to the set so hugely overweight?

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Possibly, but Han Solo is based in Coppola

More American Graffitti (1979), produced and apparently partially directed by Lucas, has a Vietnam portion shot on 16mm in Vietnam. The movie itself is pretty bad but that bit gives us a little look at what Lucas’ Apocalypse Now might have been like

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

100%

Bro sound like tucker carlson

Can You Do One For The Predator Films

I believe Coppola is 100 time better than Lucas as a director. Hopefully he still has it in him being he's completed his 120+million budget dream project script from the 80s MEGALOPOLIS coming to theaters this year. This is a great review and I like that you revist unrealized projects by directors. Hope you do George Lucas orginal Red Tails film next or a James Cameron unrealized film like his asteroid disaster film.

2:50

too bad, we could have had a movie just as good as the phantom menace

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

I can’t tell if this is sarcasm haha

Can you do Superman Vs Batman movie?

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Sure

9:40

PLEASE DO WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN THE SNYDERVERSE !!!!!!!!!!

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

I’ll add it to this week’s poll just for you :)

Darth Vader instead of Colonel Kurtz would have been interesting.

While some people might be quick to joke that George would've incoporated a completely CGI Marlon Brando in the movie because he's a funnier character than we ever had, and believe me i also think those jokes are funny, we all have to remember this is still a 70's young George Lucas, full of ambition, highly experimental young filmmaker with a chip on his shoulder in regards to big movie studios, his version of apocalypse now would've been as wild as Coppola's

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Agreed. Lucas used to be a great director.

Your notice at the end is historically inaccurate. APOCALYPSE NOW was a considerably box office success in the year of its release.

@Bulletsandblockbusters

4 ай бұрын

I’m literally quoting Coppola discussing the box office performance of his own film.

@ElvingsMusings

4 ай бұрын

Coppola liked to exaggerate and present himself as an underdog. But Apocalypse Now was certainly seen as a sizable success in its year of release. @@Bulletsandblockbusters

@Bulletsandblockbusters

4 ай бұрын

Just to clarify, he was talking about how it snowballed and wasn’t a smash hit when it opened at first

@ElvingsMusings

4 ай бұрын

Well the way it was narrated it implied that it was a flop in year of release and recouped over time. Like it made bank in its year and its first run. Maybe not as much as The Godfather but a success by any and all means. It wasn't some cult classic. Just a regular classic. @@Bulletsandblockbusters

Just as well Lucas didn't do this movie he would of only went back to it several times over the years to add more stuff to it making it worse in the process

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Haha so true!!!

@davidjames579

6 ай бұрын

Like Coppola did?

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Good point!

@HighFlyingEYE

6 ай бұрын

@@davidjames579 in my defense and please don't hate on me I've never actually watched this movie all the through it was to slow for me, mind you I'm going back 20yrs might need to revisit

@davidjames579

6 ай бұрын

@@HighFlyingEYE No problemo. I wouldn't hate anyone for their opinion on a movie. It was just a bit of a joke on Coppola doing the same thing.

Lucus couldn’t have pulled it off.

I think Millius’s original ending was better than what we got that’s more Epic!!

Luca's version looked OK in paper, doubt it would be any good in film As an example THX has interesting ideas, but aside from a few moments, is dull and boring Coppola's Theatrical version remains one of the best movies of all time, shouldn't have touched it

Can save you the time. It would've been awful.

I don’t what to say about this

@Bulletsandblockbusters

5 ай бұрын

“The horror”

@srstriker6420

5 ай бұрын

@@Bulletsandblockbusters right well how about do Tim Burton’s planet of the Apes cancelled sequel as a new one is coming out?

Hey, sorry to say this, because I am huge fan of your channel, but please, slow down with the narrative, and millisecond visual cuts. You have so many great things to say, and so many great images to show, so what is with the rush, man? It's like watching the opening to Quantum of Solace, on ffwd. Also, respect the fact that some viewers, may not have seen all the movies that we have, lest get the cultural references, in the blink of eye, necessarily. Ultimately, for me, this post is unwatchable. You can do so much better, pal.

I'm so glad Lucas didn't ruin this project

Nah what we got was a masterpiece, even George Lucas couldn't have done better. He's always been overrated it's the people around him that made those Star Wars films legendary, and the proof is the prequels because they sucked when he was the dictator of everything and surrounded by yes man.

Neolithic Jingoism…😂

I didn't care for this film. Still don't.

I made it 1 minute, I just can't stand the way the guy talks

How cool it would have been if Rogue One had been more Apocalypse Now and not Slay Queen Wah-men. 😂

I know it sounds in your head like you're on some formal serious tv news or sth but that voice infliction you do with your voice.. is so annoying.. especially cause it happens in such short intervals that it becomes grating speak normally most of the time and only when you're reaching a conclusion THEN you can do that voice infliction

@Bulletsandblockbusters

6 ай бұрын

Haha I have tried not doing it and for whatever reason can’t shake it when I’m reading off a script. I don’t talk anything like this in real life.

@KpopIsDead69

6 ай бұрын

@@Bulletsandblockbusters its a very tricky balance of self-awareness and not-thinking bout it.. you'll get there hh

@Pewskeepski

6 ай бұрын

@@Bulletsandblockbusters I like it! You don't ever have to change :)

Oh god no. I can only imagine the debacle that would have been. I hate George Lucas.