Gia Coppola In March 2016, Coppola announced that her next feature would be an adaptation of Jean Nathan's "The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll", a biopic on Dare Wright, author of the children's book "The Lonely Doll". Jessica Lange and Naomi Watts were both attached to star in the project. Gia Coppola Gian-Carla "Gia" Coppola (born January 1, 1987) is an American film director, screenwriter, and actress. She is a granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola, the daughter of Gian-Carlo Coppola and the niece of Roman Coppola and Sofia Coppola. Coppola is the daughter of Gian-Carlo Coppola and Jacqui de la Fontaine.
Francis Ford Coppola some new 3-D color footage and earned a writer's and director's credit for "The Bellboy and the Playgirls", also a box-office failure. Coppola was hired as an assistant by Roger Corman and his first job for Corman was to dub and re-edit a Russian science fiction film, "Nebo zovyot", which he turned into a sex-and-violence monster movie entitled "Battle Beyond the Sun", released in 1962. Impressed by Coppola's perseverance and dedication, Corman hired him as dialogue director on "Tower of London" (1962), sound man for "The Young Racers" (1963) and associate producer of "The Terror" (1963). While on location in