‘Apocalypse Now: Final Cut’ Trailer: The Horror Returns In A Bold New Form
Francis Ford Coppola’sApocalypse Now: Final Cutis coming to theaters and 4K Blu-ray this August. Can’t wait that long? Maybe this trailer will hold you over until then. Coppola went back and reworked his acclaimed Vietnam War epic, putting together something that’s longer than the theatrical cut, but shorter than theApocalypse Now Reduxedition. Watch theApocalypse Now Final Cuttrailer below.
Apocalypse Now Final Cut Trailer
There’s a reasonApocalypse Nowremains a classic: it’s one of the best movies ever made. And it’s not even Francis Ford Coppola’sbestmovie. In his early career, Coppola was unparalleled, pumping out incredible works of art that still hold up to this day.Apocalypse Nowwent through several different cuts – primarily because Coppola ended up shooting over a million feet of film during the troubled production.
In 2001, Coppola restored much of the excised footage for a new version of the movie –Apocalypse Now Redux. But he still wasn’t satisified. “When asked which version I personally wanted to be shown, I often felt that the original 1979 was too abruptly shortened, and Redux was too long, and settled on what I now felt was the perfect version,” Coppola said recently. That “perfect version” isApocalypse Now: Final Cut.
Coppola showed this version this week at the Tribeca Film Festival. Those of us unable to catch it there are in luck, though: the new cut will arrive in theaters and on Blu-ray this summer. Ahead of that release, we have the new trailer above. As you might expect, it looks great – this cut was restored from the original negative for the first time ever, and uses Dolby Vision HDR, which can “deliver spectacular colors never before seen on a screen, highlights that are up to 40 times brighter, and blacks that are 10 times darker.”
Apocalypse Now: Final Cuthits theaters onAugust 15; 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (4K disc, plus three Blu-ray discs and Digital copy) and on Digital 4K Ultra HD onAugust 27. A full list of special features for the home media release is below.
