The director should undergo a long -planned operation, but reported reportedly before entering the operating room in front of the atrial fibrillation.
The award -winning director Francis Ford Coppola “is fine” after he was brought to a hospital in Calabria, Italy on Tuesday morning.
“Since Dada (what my children call me) it is fine and takes an opportunity while in Rome the update of my 30 -year AFIB procedure with his inventor, a great Italian doctor -Dr. Andrea Natale!” wrote the filmmaker. “I'm doing well!”
According to the Italian News Outlet Repubblica.it (via Reuters), Coppola suffered from atrial fibrillation or an irregular heartbeat before entering the operating room.
“Mr. Coppola has used a planned update process with the celebrated Dr. Andrea Natale, his doctor of over 30 years, and rests well” Rab earlier on Tuesday. “Everything is good and he appreciates the concern for everyone.”
Coppola was in the city to present a demonstration of his film Megalopolis And had lived in Italy this summer to find places for his next film.
Coppola published Megalopolis Last year after the film had spent decades in the development of hell. He first tried to produce the film in 1989 and then in 2001 before finally making the final version. The film was polarized and bombed at the box office, which earned a total of $ 14.3 million and lost over 75 million dollars.
In the course of his long, famous career, Coppola has won five Oscars. Three of his statues were for Just The godfather Part II. He is the patriarch of the extensive Coppola trunk tree. Children Sofia and Roman also become filmmakers. Sofia won an Oscar for the best original script for your film Lost in the translationAnd her daughter Romy Mars has launched a successful social media and pop career. Coppola is also the uncle of actors Nicolas Cage and Jason Schwartzman.
Coppola's wife Eleanor died last year. She was 87 years old. The two had been married since 1963.