Apocalypse Now: Redux

John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola 1979

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/

A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.











                                      APOCALYPSE NOW
                                          REDUX

                                 an original screenplay
                                           by
                          John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola

                            Narration written by Michael Herr



























               Final Draft - A Transcription
               First published in the United States 2001
               by Talk Miramax books

               First published in the United Kingdom 2001
               by Faber & Faber Limited

               All rights reserved (c) 2001
               Zoetrope Corporation







               FADE IN:

               EXT. A SIMPLE IMAGE OF TREES - DAY

               Coconut trees being VIEWED through the veil of time or a 
               dream.  Occasionally colored smoke wafts through the FRAME, 
               yellow and then violet.  MUSIC begins quietly, suggestive 
               of 1968-69.  Perhaps "The End" by the Doors.

               Now MOVING through the FRAME are skids of helicopters, not 
               that we could make them out as that though; rather, hard 
               shapes that glide by at random.  Then a phantom helicopter 
               in FULL VIEW floats by the trees-suddenly without warning, 
               the jungle BURSTS into a bright red-orange glob of napalm