Will the Hollywood studio become extinct?
His dream factory, once prolific, now seems adrift amid the economic debris of streamerville and linear TV.
Twenty years later, the determined Coppola decided to channel the mythic success ofThe Godfatherinto a re-energized Zoetrope dream.
Francis Ford Coppola in 1982Everett
Given his paychecks of $1 million a week, Brando showed up on location almost 100 pounds overweight.
They knew little about studio management.
Coppola is a national resource without the resource, said Barry Diller, then chief of Paramount.
Marlon Brando in 1979’s ‘Apocalypse Now’
They failed to find an audience.
Does Coppola fit into that great galaxy?
Wasson would file an enthusiastic yes, and Coppola himself shows signs of out-living his naysayers.
