ROME (Reuters) -Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola has been discharged from the hospital in Rome where he was admitted two days ago, and is “feeling good”, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
The acclaimed American director of the Godfather movies and Apocalypse Now, who is 86, had been admitted to the Policlinico Tor Vergata, a public hospital in the Italian capital, on Tuesday to undergo a non-emergency cardiac procedure.
Coppola was in Italy to promote his latest movie, the science-fiction epic “Megalopolis”, a $120 million self-funded production about a visionary architect’s quest to transform a futuristic version of New York City called New Rome into a utopian community.
The film has drawn mixed reviews and struggled at the box office since its 2024 debut at the Cannes Film Festival.
The Italian-American director has won five Academy Awards, four of them for his work on the first two films in the “Godfather” trilogy, widely considered by critics to rank among the greatest movies of all time.
(Reporting by Giselda Vagnoni; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
