Apocalypse Now Redux: An Original Screenplay.

MILIUS, John and Francis Ford Coppola. [Michael Herr].

Item Number: 139728

New York: Talk Miramax Books/Hyperion, 2000.

First edition of the original screenplay of Francis Ford Coppola’s groundbreaking masterpiece, published to coincide with Miramax film release. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated with color photographs from the film. Signed by Michael Herr on the half-title page. Perhaps best known as the author of Dispatches (1977), Michael Herr wrote Martin Sheen’s voiceover narration for the film which remains one of its most definitive features. In very good condition. Cover art by Zoetrope Corporation.

In May 1979, Francis Ford Coppola unveiled a "work in progress" cut of his film Apocalypse Now at the Cannes Film Festival. After winning the prestigious Palme d'Or, the convention-shattering film was nominated for eight Academy Awards and became a worldwide phenomenon. In 2000, Coppola introduced a new version - wholly re-edited from the original raw footage: Apocalypse Now Redux. The film relocated Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to the Vietnam War, focusing on a hazardous mission to find and terminate "with extreme prejudice" a renegade American colonel in Cambodia. The film is at once a story of a specific conflict between the world's most sophisticated military machine and the Vietcong guerilla force and one of the most enduring anti-war statements of the twentieth century.