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
Heart of Darkness is immense, and the protagonists are well-acquainted with his accomplishments by the time they finally meet him. Poet Yedda Morrison's 2012 book "Darkness" erases Conrad's novella, "whiting out" his text so that only images of the natural world remain. James Reich's "Mistah Kurtz! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness" presents the early life of Kurtz, his appointment to his station in the Congo, and his messianic disintegration in a novel that dovetails with the conclusion of Conrad's novella. Reich's novel is premised upon the papers Kurtz leaves to Marlow at the end of "Heart of Darkness." In Josef Škvorecký's novel