Looks like an all-new version of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War film APOCALYPSE NOW is heading to theaters this summer! Going by the title APOCALYPSE NOW: FINAL CUT, the new cut received its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on Sunday and will be released in theaters and on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack and on Digital 4K Ultra HD this August. The film has been restored from the film’s original negative and according to Coppola, this new cut is longer than the original theatrical version but shorter than 2001's Apocalypse Now Redux.
You can watch the trailer for the new cut below. Coppola’s epic retelling of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness follows:
Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), who takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who has reportedly gone completely mad. In the company of a Navy patrol boat filled with street-smart kids, a surfing-obsessed Air Cavalry officer (Robert Duvall), and a crazed freelance photographer (Dennis Hopper), Willard travels further and further into the heart of darkness.
Now I know that Coppola's flick isn't exactly a "horror" movie by some people's judgment. But whatever, I say. If there is any war movie out there that perfectly displays the cliche "War is Hell" then this flick is it. Plus, let's not forget Brando's famous line: "The Horror… The Horror." Got to love it!
Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, the film’s cast also includes Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, and Harrison Ford. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning for Best Sound and Best Cinematography. APOCALYPSE NOW: FINAL CUT will be released in theaters on August 15. It will be released on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack and on Digital 4K Ultra HD August 27, 2019.