Being born into a family of renowned artists can be a considerable advantage if one wants to join the clan business. And if your uncle is called Francis Ford Coppola and has made feature films as indisputably influential as the trilogy of The Godfather (1972-1990), being sponsored by you is a real luxury. But something different would think Nicolas Cage How to change your last name.
Chanuri Kumara account in ScreenRant that it all started with the composer Carmine Coppola (1910-1991), father of the respected filmmaker and actress thalia shirewho plays Connie Corleone in the famous films about Italian-American mobsters with which her more illustrious brother adapts the homonymous novel by Mario Puzo (1969), or Adrian Pennino in the franchise of Rocky (since 1976).
And other relatives have jumped on the film bandwagon. sofia coppoladaughter of Francis, has directed seven films to date, such as the virgin suicides (1999) or Lost in Translation (2003). His cousin Roman Coppola is best known as a screenwriter for Travel to Darjeeling or Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2007, 2012). And his brothers Jason and Robert Schwartzmann They are, above all, actors.
One plays Gideon Graves in Scott Pilgrim vs. the world (Edgar Wright, 2010) or M. Jean de The Grand Budapest Hotel (Anderson, 2014); and the other has been lavished much less. Just like Marc Coppola, eldest son of August Coppola, who also had the mediocre director Christopher Coppola and the aforementioned Nicolas Cage, who really doesn’t need any introduction.
From Luke Cage to Nicolas Cage: disassociating himself from Francis Ford Coppola
“With a track record like that, being accused of nepotism was a constant risk,” explains Chanuri Kumara. “In fact, the extensive family connections soon became a load for Cage, especially in regards to his illustrious uncleFrancis Ford Coppola. The agents of casting they used to ask him about him at auditions, and their bond affected the way he related to colleagues.
The interpreter had been credited with his real name in The Best of Times (Don Mischer, 1981) and that exciting course (Amy Heckerling, 1982), where he plays Nicholas and a compadre of Brad Hamilton (Judge Reinhold). However, from the valley girl (Martha Coolidge, 1983), he is known as Nicholas Cageand so it is stated for his Smokey in The street law (1983), by Titus Francis.
For this new artistic surname with which we have referred to him ever since, he thought in Luke Cageone of the first superheroes Marvel Comics African-Americans to star in one of his publications. It was the brainchild of screenwriters Archie Goodwin and Roy Thomas and cartoonists George Tuska and John Romita Sr. for the number one Luke Cage, Hero for Hireseries launched in June 1972.
With the seventeen, he became titled Luke CagePower Man in February 1974; and later on, Power Man and Iron Fiststarting at fifty in January 1978. His superhuman strength and unbreakable skin He owes them to the cell regeneration experiment of Dr. Noah Burstein to which he is subjected after leaving prison for a crime he had not committed. So he loves when plans go well.
No problems with the Coppola family
His choice makes sense knowing that Nicolas Cage he’s always liked superhero comics. But, with this new baptism, there was speculation about Francis Ford Coppola’s disappointment, and that it was because of her that he had not wanted to give his nephew the role of Vincent Corleone in The Godfather 3 (1990) but to Andy Garcia, who earned an Oscar nomination for his work.
But nothing is further from the truth. Above all, if one looks at the consideration of the Hollywood Film Academy for its famous awards and, therefore, at the filmmaker’s wisdom in denying him the role in the film; and in which Nicolas Cage has also been Vincent Dwyer in Cotton Club (1984) and the Charlie Bodell of Peggy Sue got married (1986), both directed by Francis Ford Coppola.