“Someday this war’s gonna end.”
But not today; according to Collider, a special edition re-release of Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam war opus Apocalypse Now is coming to IMAX theaters on August 15th and 18th, just in time for the film’s 40th anniversary. A home video version of the new cut will be released later in the month.
Restored from the original negative and digitally remastered for IMAX, the now-entitled Apocalypse Now: Final Cut is actually a few minutes shorter than the 2001 Redux version, but it does contain the “French plantation” sequence (but misses a scene where Marlon Brando “strolls about in daylight looking a little like Shrek“).
There have been several versions and director’s cuts of Apocalypse Now, a famously troubled production that stars Martin Sheen as Army Captain Willard, sent on a mission through Cambodia to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando). Loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novel Heart of Darkness, Coppola’s film was wildly over budget and plagued by both terrible weather and issues with the actors, including rampant drug use, Sheen’s heart attack and constant clashes between Coppola and a withdrawn, overweight Brando. No wonder the director once quipped “My film is not about Vietnam — it is Vietnam.”
You can buy advance tickets to Apocalypse Now: Final Cut here.
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