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Estevez stood in for his brother in a number of long shots and in some of the voice-overs for Apocalypse Now (1979), as Martin Sheen was recovering from his heart attack. In 1992, he acted in Armed for Action and Blood on the Badge.
- Writer John Milius listened exclusively to music by The Doors and Richard Wagner while he worked on the screenplay. Milius said he believed The Doors to be "the music of war," a fact which greatly upset the members of the band.
- The majority of the dialogue had to be re-recorded during post-production, as the jungle environments and heavy background noise made much of the original dialogue impossible to use.
- Coppola originally offered the role of Captain Willard to "The Godfather" star Al Pacino. Pacino declined, telling Coppola he had no interest in spending months shooting in a swamp.
- Pacino was also one of several actors Coppola considered as a potential replacement for Marlon Brando, who repeatedly threatened to quit.
Joe Estevez. Actor: Return of the Roller Blade Seven. Joe Estevez' first time on the stage was as a 6-year-old playing the "Evil Inn Keeper" in a Christmas Nativity play, and as an actor he has never looked back.
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Joe Estevez in The Death of Hollywood (2009)- Joe Estevez in The Zero Boys (1986)
- Joe Estevez in Act of Contrition (2019)
- Robert Z'Dar, Dustin Diamond, Joe Estevez, Jake Roberts, Lark Voorhies, Brad Leo Lyon, and Kyle Colton in Little Creeps (2012)
- Joe Estevez takes his hat off in bewitching Galena, IL
- Joe Estevez, William Smith, Kevin T. Collins, and Andrew Roth in Inner Rage (2006)
- Martin Sheen Had A Heart Attack. Heart Attacks are bad enough if one is close to a hospital. Now imagine having one in the Philippines, a quarter-mile away from the nearest assistance.
- It Created A Surfing Scene In The Philippines. Prior to the movie, surfing was a virtually unknown activity in the archipelago. However, locals observed members of the crew engaging in the sport.
- Laurence Fishburne. Apocalypse Now was only Laurence Fishburne's third film role. Becoming a part of such a prestigious production so early is impressive.
- Marlon Brando. By the late '70s, Marlon Brando's physical appearance was a far cry from the hunky Stanley Kowalski who made women faint in theaters more than twenty years prior.
- Martin Sheen had a heart attack in the middle of filming. In the middle of filming Apocalypse Now, the lead actor Martin Sheen suffered from a heart attack and had to take time off to recover from it.
- The Doors’ “The End” was initially played over the opening scene as a joke. The film from Apocalypse Now’s opening scene, with grainy images of helicopters flying across psychedelic landscapes, was actually fished out of the trash in the cutting room.
- Filming took more than ten times longer than expected. Shooting for Apocalypse Now was initially scheduled to last for six weeks, but it ended up taking 16 months.
- Laurence Fishburne lied about his age to get a role in the film. Back in 1979, very few moviegoers noticed a young Laurence Fishburne in Apocalypse Now.
At its core, “Apocalypse Now” is about a man at the end of his rope heading up a river to try and find a military man who has purportedly gone insane and is living as some sort of demigod deep...
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Apocalypse Now: Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest. A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
