Francis Ford Coppola wants to make a film in London because he doesn’t associate the city with his late wife.
Francis Ford Coppola has revealed why he's choosing London
The 85-year-old director’s beloved spouse Eleanor passed away in April and for his next project – which will be much more low-budget than his upcoming release ‘Megalopolis’ – the filmmaker is keen to work in the UK capital as he doesn’t have any reminders of his wife there because they never visited together.
Asked what’s next, he told Empire magazine: “I want to do something that will be really fun. I want to do it in London. It won’t be super-duper expensive.
“To be honest with you, London is one place I never went to with my wife. I want to go somewhere that everywhere I turn I don’t see her.
“It’s a wonderful thing to see her, but I’m not ready to go back to our home where we lived together because it would break my heart and I would miss her too much.
“I have no associations with her in London so I want to be in London. It’s a film from a great author, but my own version of it. It involves a lot of dance and music. A lot of Noel Coward songs.”
Francis has lost the “rock of [his] life” as a result of his wife’s passing.
Asked about dedicating ‘Megalopolis’ to Eleanor, he said: “Yes, I confess to a degree of sentimentality. I had a wonderful wife of over 62 years and I’ve lost her.
“I must tell you I lost the rock of my life. I always have gone on these wild, mental adventures and my wife would say to me, ‘Francis, give your brain a rest.’ But I don’t know how.
“I needed her and she certainly was the love of my life. I miss her dearly. I believe it’s only in love that we understand some of life’s miracles. Scientists haven’t agreed what dark matter and dark energy is.
“We call it ‘dark’ because we don’t interact with it. I feel it’s love and we do interact with it because there’s nothing we do in our lives that doesn’t somehow touch the people we love.”
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