Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse "Tropic Thunder" parodies both "Hearts of Darkness" and "Apocalypse Now". The animated series "Eek! The Cat" also did a parody episode "Eekpocalypse Now!" Season 2, Episode 5A. Other documentaries about troubled movie productions: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse is a 1991 American documentary film about the production of "Apocalypse Now," the 1979 Vietnam War epic directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The title is derived from the Joseph Conrad novella "Heart of Darkness", the source material for "Apocalypse Now". Using behind-the-scenes footage, and narrated by Eleanor Coppola, the documentary chronicles how production problems—among them
Kurtz (Heart of Darkness) worshipped as a god by his underlings; in Caesar's case, his followers believe him to be the reincarnation of Mars, the Roman god of war. The video game "" (2012), another modernized loose adaptation of "Heart of Darkness" (set in a ruined Dubai), has a similar Kurtz figure named Colonel John Konrad. Timothy Findley's novel "Headhunter" (1993) features Kurtz's escape from "Heart of Darkness" and subsequent reign of terror over the city of Toronto as the psychiatrist-in-chief at the Parkin Institute. The poem "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot starts off with the line "Mistah Kurtz - He Dead." In