Coppola Lost 15 Years of Data in Burglary
By
WENN.com
|
Saturday, September 29, 2007
HOLLYWOOD - Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola lost 15 years of computer data during a recent burglary at his Argentinean home.
Five thieves broke into the Godfather director's Buenos Aires house and made out with a laptop containing the script for his new movie Tetro--due to start shooting in February--writings and family photographs.
Coppola wasn't home at the time of the break-in, but the burglars threatened a person who was in the property.
Although Coppola has saved copies of the Tetro script elsewhere, on Friday he issued a plea for the return of a small computer backup device.
He said, "They stole our computers; they got all our data, many years of work. If I could get the backup back, it would save me years--all the photographs of my family, all my writing."
A spokesperson for the Hollywood director says he has offered a reward for the backup's safe return.
Tetro is set to star Matt Damon and is about an artistic Italian immigrant family living in Buenos Aires.
COPYRIGHT 2007 WORLD ENTERTAINMENT NEWS NETWORK LTD. All Global Rights Reserved.
Photo(s) by Ken Kwok- © 2004- Hollywood.com, Inc- All Rights Reserved
Bookmark this news story with:
News Archive