Estevez starred as Captain Benjamin L. Willard (voice) in Apocalypse Now. Apocalypse Now was a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by John Milius, Coppola, and Michael Herr, is loosely founded on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting varying from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia launched by Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), who is on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a traitor Special Forces officer who is indicted of murder and presumed insane. The costumed cast also features Frederic Forrest, Robert Duvall, Sam Bottoms, Albert Hall, Laurence Fishburne, and Dennis Hopper.
