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Coppola Makes a Comeback
After an eight-year layoff, Francis Ford Coppola is hopping back into the director's chair.
We're not sure if it was an offer he couldn't refuse, but the The Godfather mastermind has decided to adapt and direct Youth Without Youth, his first film since 1997's The Rainmaker.
Coppola has written the screenplay and will produce and self-finance the picture through his American Zoetrope production banner, according to Variety.
Based on the novella by Romanian author and intellectual Mircea Ellade, Youth Without Youth follows a professor whose life takes a dramatic turn in the run up to World War II. He must stay one step ahead of his pursuers, who chase him all across Europe--from Romania to Switzerland to Malta--all the way to India.
The movie will star Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz and Marcel Lures. Shooting starts in Bucharest Oct. 3.
Youth is an attempt to recapture Coppola's own youth in a way. Unlike the auteur's creative peak during the '70s, which included such epics as The Godfather, The Godfather Part II and Apocalypse Now, or his less successful '80s and '90s output as a director-for-hire on The Cotton Club, Peggy Sue Got Married and Jack, Youth is a surrealistic period piece that hearkens to Coppola's earlier, more personal experimental style of filmmaking, akin to 1968's Finian's Rainbow and 1969's The Rain People and 1974's The Conversation.
"I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better: time, consciousness, and the dreamlike basis of reality," the five-time Oscar winner said in a statement. "For me, it is indeed a return to the ambitions I had for work in cinema as a student."
Coppola visited Romania in February and, per Variety, spoke at a university there, telling students, "I have come here to rediscover myself as an artist."
That's a far cry from his exploits for the better part of a decade, as he's focused more on his burgeoning wine and hotel business than movies, aside from a few producing credits and general complaints that the powers-that-be in Tinseltown only offering him mob movies.
Speaking of youth, the 66-year-old filmmaker has just recut 1983's The Outsiders.
His two-disc DVD director's cut of the underrated '50s teen drama, billed as The Complete Novel, hit stores Tuesday with 22 minutes of footage restored.
Coppola also provides an introduction and commentary to the film, which, while only a modest success at the box office, showcased the director's nose for talent. The cast included the likes of Tom Cruise, Diane Lane, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon, Leif Garrett, Ralph Macchio and C. Thomas Howell.
Aside from Youth, Coppola is also planning to produce a big-screen version of Jack Kerouac's classic beat novel, On the Road, that will be directed by Brazilian helmer Walter Salles.
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