Other Titles • Apocalypse Now • Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)
Trivia from Apocalypse Now (1979)
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The film premiered on August 15, 1979.
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APOCALYPSE NOW is number 28 on the American Film Insitute's list of America's 100 Greatest Movies.
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A Francis Ford Coppola private joke: The name tags on the army shirts of the two men giving Willard his assassination orders are R. Corman and Colonel G. Lucas, Coppola's two director buddies.
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Larry Fishburne was only 14 when he played the part of Clean.
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Martin Sheen suffered a heart attack during the strenuous shoot.
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Francis Ford Coppola appears in the film as a newsreel director.
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Harvey Keitel was originally cast as Willard. He was fired after the first week of filming.
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Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford, and Al Pacino were all considered for the role of Kurtz.
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Orson Welles wanted to make a version of HEART OF DARKNESS in 1939. He got as far as storyboarding the film before abandoning the project for CITIZEN KANE.
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