Francis Ford Coppola wished his old frenemy Robert Evans could have made the trip to a screening of The Cotton Club Encore, the new version of the 1984 film that Coppola spent half a million dollar…
, the new version of the 1984 film that Coppola spent half a million dollars of his own money to re-edit, expand and re-release.
Thirty-five years later, Coppola has reinserted 35 minutes of footage he said distributors weren’t comfortable with at the time. Evans “is about ten years older than me and I had hoped he could be here to share it and he wasn’t well enough. He was the originator of. Evans was going to direct it,” said Coppola about Evans, who ended up handing the project off., with you second guessing me every second,” Coppola explained.
Evans lobbied unsuccessfully against Gwynne having a role in the film. “He said, ‘I will not have a Munster in my movie,’” Coppola recalled.
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