Miramax Want More 'Horror'

[Friday, March 23rd, 2001]
Miramax have bought the rights to re-release of the classic Vietnam movie 'Apocalypse Now' in North America. The movie is the extended directors cut edition, and will now run for a approx 3 hours and 17 minutes, thats with a extra 53 minutes. The Holywood Reporter reports:

Although all other domestic rights reside with Paramount, sources said. Paramount Home Entertainment has the video and DVD distribution rights to "Redux," but industry sources said that, like Coppola's anticipated DVD release of "The Godfather," American Zoetrope is handling the DVD authoring and compression in-house. Paramount also is understood to have television rights.



The movie will be released as 'Apocalypse Now Redux', and will be limited release across the US and Canada. The extra scenes that are to be in the movie, includes the "French plantation" sequence featuring the Christian Marquand and Aurore Clement. The Playboy Playmates sequence has been extended, and there is more detail involving Martin Sheen and his crewmates on their voyage, along with a new Marlon Brando scene.

"We re-edited the film from the original unedited raw footage," said Coppola. "The themes emerge more clearly and the film is funnier, sexier, more romantic, more political, and more bizarre, with more historical perspective. I am pleased to be working with Miramax and excited that when this version of the film comes to theaters later this year, it will be as if it's being presented for the first time."

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