[Pythion.net]

I just finished Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. I read it after finding out that the writer, John Millius had always wanted to write the screen play for a movie of the book, but when he was asked to write a Vietnam movie, he saw the opportunity to indirectly make Heart of Darkness into a movie. Apocalyspe Now was an adaptation of the book set in Vietnam instead of the Congo, and Francis Ford Coppola carried the book around with him while filming and used it as a guide.

[Reily]

The CBS television anthology Playhouse 90 aired a loose 90-minute adaptation in 1958, Heart of Darkness (Playhouse 90). This version, written by Stewart Stern, uses the encounter between Marlow (Roddy McDowall) and Kurtz (Boris Karloff) as its final act, and adds a backstory in which Marlow had been Kurtz’s adopted son