Francis Ford Coppola, 86

Francis Ford Coppola rests after a visit to the hospital in Italy.

The legendary filmmaker, 86, is doing well after having undergone a procedure with his longtime doctor, a source close to Coppola said to people.

“Mr. Coppola went for an update procedure planned with Dr. Andrea Natale, acclaimed, his doctor in more than 30 years, and rests well,” said the source. “Everything is fine and he appreciates everyone’s concern.”

Local media in Rome said the director of The godfather And Apocalypse now was hospitalized on Tuesday, August 5.

Coppola’s Longtime Wife, Documentary Filmmaker and Artist Eleanor Died in April 2024 at Age 87. They Married in 1963, and They Shared Three Kids: Sons Gian-Carlo, Who Died in 1986 Boating accident when He was 22, and novel, more Daughter Sofia, 54. (Sofia is the Oscar-Winning Director of Movies Like Lost in the translation And Prison.)

The filmmaker made a trip to a road on tour his latest film, 2024 Megalopolis With Adam Driver, for the crowd, more recently at the Tomorrow Theater in Portland, Oregon, Sunday August 3.

On Sunday August 1, he appeared at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in San Francisco. “A big thank you to the San Francisco @palaceoffinearts for allowing Megalopolis to serve as a forum concerning the future of humanity,” he wrote on Instagram on August 3, sharing photos of the event.

According to a report by SFGATE, Coppola spoke of death and his inheritance when he was on stage during the rally. “I lost my wife a year ago, at that time. But my attitude for death is that I always lived my life so that when I approached death, I would not say:” Oh, I would have liked to do that and I would like to have done this. “Instead, I say to myself: ‘I obtained To do this. I could see my daughter winning an Oscar. I was able to see my father win an Oscar. “”

He continued, according to the point of sale, “I will be so busy saying all the things I have to do when I die, I will not notice it. When I die, I will not notice it. You know how your electric toothbrush stops when you expect the least? Is what the death looks like.”

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In July, Coppola went to the Magna Graecia Film Festival in Italy, as well as stops in New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Texas and more.

The director, who was opened to the survival of a child polio fight, said Roller In August 2024 that he “worked on two potential projects” after having deployed MegalopolisA passionate project that he has invested around $ 120 million in his own fortune in manufacturing.

Among these projects, he said at the time: “One is a kind of regular film that someone I would like to finance and made in England, because I don’t have a great story with my wife in England. Everywhere else, I remember her all the time.”

“The other,” he added, “is called Distant vision, which is the story of three generations of an Italian-American family like mine, but fictitious, during which the television phenomenon was invented. I would finance him with anything Megalopolis do. I want to make another dice roll with that one. “”