It’s been a while since audiences have had the opportunity to disappear into a world created by Francis Ford Coppola. The Oscar-winning director has been quiet of late, especially after his 2011 film TWIXT (starring Val Kilmer and Elle Fanning) was met with a confused silence when it debuted on the festival circuit this year.
Now, with an upcoming five-film Blu-ray box set release, Coppola is back to fielding questions from entertainment journalists from around the globe. One informational nugget the auteur did reveal was that he had an upcoming big-budget project in the works. Coppola said that a ‘secret investor that has infinite money’ is interested in the first draft of a script he’s been working on.
Refusing to release any in-depth details, Coppola only admitted that the film is set in New York in the decades spanning from the 1920s to the late-60s. As to what exactly that means in terms of a premise is anyone’s guess. But, for the Coppola faithful, the mere mention of a new project waiting in the wings should be welcome news.
The Coppola box set includes APOCALYPSE NOW, APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX, ONE FROM THE HEART, TETRO and THE CONVERSATION. The absence of his much-revered masterpiece THE GODFATHER is a glaring omission, yet it likely has to do with the fact that the majority of Corleone aficionados already own the trilogy.
Source: First Showing
