A troubled production has proven itself to be both a blessing and a curse, but few feature film shoots in history have suffered from as much adversity as Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, which comfortably threw off the shackles of disaster to instantly establish itself as one of the greatest movies ever made, regardless of which cut you prefer.
Cameras were originally scheduled to roll for five months, which is a hefty chunk of time as it is, but the cast and crew ended up working for over a year. To add insult to injury (both literal and figurative), sets ended up being destroyed by severe weather, Martin Sheen suffered a breakdown and a heart attack that almost killed him, Marlon Brando showed up so overweight he had to be cloaked in shadows, and the release date was repeatedly delayed as Coppola and his team tried to hammer the exhaustive footage they’d captured into shape.
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