Francis Ford Coppola, the experienced American Italian filmmaker behind the sponsor and Apocalypse, has been hospitalized in the local media in Rome.
The 86 -year -old Coppola was approved on Tuesday morning in Policlinico Torvergata, a public hospital, in order to have surgery in connection with heart problems in connection with the management of heart problems, reported Coriere della Sera. But he suffered a slight heart arrhythmia before the operation and the doctors watched him, Corriere added.
The Oscar winner is a frequent visitor in Italy and visited the Magna Graecia Film Festival in the southern Italian region of Calabria in mid-July to present his latest film Megalopolis, Megalopolis. He had also spent time looking for places in Italy for a new production that was shot in autumn, Ansa reported.
According to Hollywood Reporter, Coppola completed a six-city US tour on Friday to promote megalopolis. It is unclear when he returned to Italy.
Coppola, the winner of five Oscars, said with the audience at the Film Festival in Calabria:
Megalopolis, his science fiction epic with ADAM driver, cost $ 120 million, which was largely financed by selling his vineyards. However, the reviews were mixed, with the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw called a “bloated, boring and confusingly flat film”.
However, Coppola did not seem to be regretted by his passion for passion. He said, “There are many people when they die, they say:” Oh, I wish I had done that, I wish I had done that. “
The director, whose wife Eleanor died in April last year, added: “And I will be so busy thinking of all the things I have to do when I die, I will not notice it.”