LAKE COUNTY — An article featured in Friday”s New York Times highlights the new Francis Ford Coppola movie currently being shot in Lake County.
Lake County Supervisor Rob Brown said, “We”re very happy to host them here. This is our home and we welcome them in our home.”
“A Man and His Bad Dreams: Coppola Turns a Nightmare Into a New Film,” by Dave Itzkoff, describes Coppola”s film, “Twixt Now and Sunrise,” as something that “seemed to have the imagery of Hawthorne or Poe,” and as a “gothic romance/horror ….”
The movie is set for release next year.
The film”s cast features Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning, Joanne Whalley, Ben Chaplin, Don Novello, David Paymer and Alden Erenreich.
Coppola directed huge hits, “The Godfather,” “Apocalypse Now” and “The Outsiders,” to name just a few.
The article states that Coppola wrote of “Twixt Now and Sunrise,” that it “grew out of a dream I had last year ? more of a nightmare. But, as I was having it I realized perhaps it was a gift, as I could make it as a story, perhaps a scary film, I thought even as I was dreaming. But then some loud noise outside woke me up, and I wanted to go back to the dream and get an ending. But I couldn”t fall back asleep so I recorded what I remembered right there and then on my phone. I realized that it was a gothic-romance setting, so in fact I”d be able to do it all around my home base, rather than have to go to a distant country.”
According to the article Coppola is financing the production. It is budgeted at just less than $7 million and he anticipates the filming will last about five weeks.
