The Bearded Trio

Thirty Six years ago tomorrow, on May 10 1979, Apocalypse Now was finally screened to  the world for the first time, during the Cannes Film Festival. The film that took more than 16 months to shoot ( Jaws eat your heart out) and almost 3  years to edit. Furthermore it was this film that severely damaged the friendship between George Lucas  and Francis Ford Coppola (business partners in American Zoetrope at that time) to the  point where the two men refused to speak to each other for years.  Coppola, Michael Jackson and Lucas (It wasn't until 1986 that  the men worked together again on the 3D- Captain EO project.) Originally slated to be directed by George Lucas (when developed at American Zoetrope around 1971), George intended to make Apocalypse Now a documentary style feature, to  be filmed during the actual war in Vietnam. Francis Ford Coppola trie...