Francis Ford Coppola wants to make an Apocalypse Now video game and he's hoping fans will help pay for it.
The director and a team of veteran developers have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $900,000 US for what he says will be an "immersive, psychedelic horror role-playing game" based on his classic 1979 Vietnam War film.
"I remember telling my editor Walter Murch that the more he worked on Apocalypse Now the crazier he would get," the filmmaker says in an online video about the project.
"If you experience this game, perhaps it will have the same effect on you."
The video game will depict "the horror and spectacle of the Vietnam War through the character of Captain Benjamin Willard, an American tasked with the assassination of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz."
Robert Duvall (left, Lt. Col. Kilgore), Albert Hall (centre, Chief) and Martin Sheen (Capt. Willard) appear in a scene from Apocalypse Now. In the proposed game, players take the role of Willard, who is tasked to kill an American colonel gone rogue. (United Artists/Associated Press)
In a message on the crowd-funding site, Coppola said he wanted to experiment with a new platform and bring Apocalypse Now to a new generation.
Coppola said video game publishers wouldn't provide him the artistic freedom he's seeking, comparing them to risk-free Hollywood movie studios.
He said the game will put you in the middle of the war, but the object is not to be killed rather than to kill.
"We are not making a shooter. We are making a survival-horror experience," said Lawrence Liberty, executive producer of the project.
Coppola and his team are targeting to finish it by fall 2020.
Francis Ford Coppola developing Apocalypse Now video game
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