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Eleanor Coppola, ‘Hearts of Darkness’ Director and Francis Ford Coppola’s Wife, Dies at 87
Eleanor Coppola, a filmmaker and husband to Francis Ford Coppola and mother to Sofia Coppola, has died. She was 87.
A lifelong creative partner to her husband Francis, Eleanor Coppola took up filmmaking during the production of his Vietnam war feature “Apocalypse Now.” An anticipated follow-up to “The Godfather: Part II,” the planned five-month Philippines shoot more than doubled in length due to a litany of headaches and complications, including initial star Harvey Keitel’s replacement with Martin Sheen, typhoons wrecking sets, reworked endings and Sheen’s hospitalization due to a heart attack. Coppola later wrote and directed her first narrative feature, “Paris Can Wait,” a romance starring Diane Lane, Alec Baldwin and Arnaud Viard, which premiered at the 2016 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. She met her husband while working as an assistant art director on the Roger Corman horror production of “Dementia 13,” which marked Francis Ford Coppola’s feature directorial debut.
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