By Todd VanDerWerff

Francis Ford Coppola, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Patton, announced at the Produced By conference that he is writing "a multi-generational saga about an Italian American family not unlike his own," as per Variety. This would be new subject matter for the director, who is primarily known for his work in the field of musicals (One From The Heart) and films about children who suffer from progeria (Jack).

A multi-generational saga about an Italian family would be new territory for the director of Apocalypse Now and The Conversation, but given the quality of those two films, it would be something we would eagerly anticipate!

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