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The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola reveals the sad reason he plans to shoot his next film in London


The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola plans to shoot his next film in the capital, for the saddest of reasons.

He talked her out of giving the baby up for adoption, and the pair tied the knot in a Las Vegas shotgun wedding before welcoming their son Gian-Carlo. In 2016, around her 80th birthday, she broke into narrative feature films by directing the comedy Paris Can Wait, starring Alec Baldwin, Diane Lane and Arnaud Viard. Eleanor's family life was rocked by tragedy in 1986, when her firstborn son Gian-Carlo was killed in a speedboating accident, leaving behind a pregnant fiancée.

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