The New York Times cites a statement by Francis Ford Coppola about the origins of his next film, a gothic romance/horror called "Twixt Now and Sunrise" (uh, would that include twilight?). It all started with a nightmare:
But as I was having [the dream] 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.
He also said that he always writes a short story as a first step toward a screenplay. He said this one will have "the imagery of Hawthorne or Poe," and will start Val Kilmer, Elle Fanning and Joanne Whalley. It will be a low-budget--$7 million--affair.
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