Coppola Returns!

Coppola sometime in 1980s

FRANCIS Ford Coppola, the
celebrated director of Godfather, is
to return to film-making after an 8-
year break - with a low-budget film
starring the British actor Tim Roth
(whose credits include Reservoir
Dogs and Pulp Fiction). Coppola will
direct an adaptation of Youth
without Youth, a novel by the
Romanian author Mircea Eliade.
Coppola will finance the production
and has written the screenplay. It will be the first film made by the
director since The Rainmaker in 1997.

The story is about a professor whose life is altered after an "extraordinary
change" late in his life and before the world war II, which leads to Nazi
interest in studying him. Becoming a fugitive, he is pursued through far-
flung locations including Romania, Switzerland, Malta and India.

Coppola has won 5 Oscars, the first of which was for his screenplay for
Patton in 1971, starring George C Scott. He won the best director Oscar in
1975 for the Godfather: Part II, which also took the best picture award.
He has received best director Academy Award nominations a further 3
times and been nominated for the best picture award on 4 other occasions.