Eleanor Coppola, a writer and American filmmaker who chronicled her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s taxing 238-day production of “Apocalypse Now” in her documentary “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse,” has died. She was 87.https://t.co/UDtPLEsIw6 pic.twitter.com/3dSGI01rbe
— Variety (@Variety) April 12, 2024
-Wife of Francis Ford Coppola and mother of Sofia Coppola passed away at the age 87.
-Famously made a documentary about the troubled production of Apocalypse Now called “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse” for which she she won an Emmy.
-Coppola is survived by her husband, Francis, their children, Sofia and Roman, and three grandchildren. Their eldest son, Gian-Carlo, died in 1986 at the age of 22 after sustaining injuries in a speed-boating accident.
RIP
