"Apocalypse Now: Extended: Fans of Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam war classic "Apocalypse Now" can rejoice according
to the L.A. Times. Editor Walter Murch revealed he's currently working on an extended version of the movie for a limited
thetrical release next year - and when he says extended he means extended, approximately 50 minutes longer. The additions
include "an entire sequence in which Martin Sheen and company stumble onto a French family that has secluded itself on a
ruined plantation. They have dinner and discuss the painful politics of French involvement in Indochina and how it mirrors
the American experience 15 years later. There's even a romantic interlude for Sheen". Murch adds "There's more of Marlon
Brando, touching more directly on politics and the media, when he reads excerpts from Time magazine. Brando is now more
lucid and reasonable, and doesn't look as heavy...It alters your understanding of what happens in the last 15 minutes of the
film. There's also more of Robert Duvall's wacky Col. Kilgore, who's given a more dramatic entrance as well as a funnier and
more emphatic exit. Plus the Playboy bunny sequence has been expanded, with fuel being exchanged for a night with the
bunnies". Thanks to 'Dan'"
-tom w