So FF Coppola is trying to raise about $900,000 in seed money to get a video game made of his classic film, Apocalypse Now. First of all, are you telling me Francis Ford Coppola doesn’t have a million he can break off for something like this? And wouldn’t you imagine there’s just a line of people waiting to be a part of anything he wants to do?
The Oscar-winning director launched a Kickstarter page to raise funds for the game, which he said would take about three years to develop.
By Thursday, one day after Coppola’s announcement, the fund had reached $55,000.
The interactive game will involve role playing with gamers taking on the character of U.S. army Captain Willard (played by Martin Sheen in the 1979 movie), who is on a secret mission to assassinate renegade Colonel Kurtz (played by Marlon Brando), the director said in a statement.
“Forty years ago, I set out to make a personal art picture that could hopefully influence generations of viewers for years to come. Today, I’m joined by new daredevils, a team who want to make an interactive version of ‘Apocalypse Now’, where you are Captain Benjamin Willard amidst the harsh backdrop of the Vietnam War,” Coppola said.