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Sean Hutchinson and Mental_Floss<\/a><\/b>\u00a0present 17 Fascinating Facts About Apocalypse Now<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites… [Beware of Spoilers!]<\/p>\n 6. COPPOLA LITERALLY PUT EVERYTHING HE HAD INTO THE MOVIE.<\/strong> 8. HARRISON FORD APPEARS IN A (TECHNICALLY) PRE-STAR WARS\u00a0<\/em>ROLE. 5. HARVEY KEITEL WAS FIRST HIRED TO PLAY WILLARD.<\/strong> Sean Hutchinson and Mental_Floss\u00a0present 17 Fascinating Facts About Apocalypse Now.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites… [Beware of Spoilers!] 6. COPPOLA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26898,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330\/revisions\/26898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nThe director invested $30 million of his own money into the project to get the budget to the amount required to execute his vision. That total included the valuations of his house and his winery, which he signed over to Chase Bank as collateral on the amount. The interest rate for the amount began at seven percent, but when production ended it was up to 29 percent. If the movie tanked, Coppola faced financial ruin, which understandably made the filming process fairly stressful. Coppola suffered an epileptic seizure while shooting, had a nervous breakdown, and allegedly threatened to commit suicide at least three times.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Coppola hired a young actor named Harrison Ford to appear as Colonel Lucas (a nod to George), one of the military officers who gives Willard his orders to assassinate Kurtz. Ford had previously appeared in Lucas\u2019 <\/span>American Graffiti<\/em> and Coppola\u2019s <\/span>The Conversation<\/em>, but was still relatively unknown when the filming of <\/span>Apocalypse Now <\/em>began in 1976. \u00a0He would later become a megastar after appearing as Han Solo in <\/span>Star Wars<\/em> when it was released in 1977.<\/span>Apocalypse Now<\/em>, which was shot before <\/span>Star Wars,<\/em> was released afterwards. Ford was apparently so nervous when shooting his scenes that Coppola added a story beat for his character to drop his dossier about Kurtz as a way to incorporate the then young actor\u2019s anxiety into the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nCoppola held exhaustive audition sessions for his primary cast, but the part of Willard proved to be a problematic one for Coppola. He first offered the part to actor Steve McQueen, who turned down the role because he didn\u2019t want to shoot in the jungle on location. Al Pacino, James Caan, and Jack Nicholson all turned down successive offers from Coppola until he gave the role to Harvey Keitel. Coppola fired Keitel six weeks into production because he thought the actor\u2019s performance wasn\u2019t as introspective as he needed for the character. So he called Martin Sheen, who had previously auditioned for the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather<\/em> and passed on Apocalypse Now<\/em> because he was shooting The Cassandra Crossing\u00a0<\/em>in Rome.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"