Francis Ford Coppola’s Epic Vietnam War Movie ‘Apocalypse Now’ Is Finally Becoming A Video Game
Apocalypse Now, the epic 1979 Vietnam War movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola, is considered as a cinematic classic.
Nearly 40 years later, Coppola is now looking to revive Apocalypse Now as a video game, with the director having assembled a team of industry veterans to make the project become reality.
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Coppola has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funding for the Apocalypse Now video game. The campaign, which is looking to raise a hefty goal of $900,000, will only partly finance the ambitious project.
“Forty years ago, I set out to make a personal art picture that could hopefully influence generations of viewers for years to come,” Coppola said in a statement, referring to the 1979 film. He envisions the game as having players take on the role of Captain Benjamin Willard, played in the movie by Martin Sheen, as they embark on a mission to assassinate renegade Col. Walter Kurtz, played in the movie by Marlon Brando.
To aid Coppola in his vision for the Apocalypse Now video game is a team of veteran game developers that includes Rob Auten, lead writer for…