Francis Ford Coppola is a screenwriter.
Francis Ford Coppola . His most well-known films released since the start of the 1980s are the dramas The Outsiders and Rumble Fish ( both 1983 ) , the crime-drama The Cotton Club ( 1984 ) , and the horror film Bram Stoker 's Dracula ( 1992 ) . The Cotton Club (film) . The film was co-written ( with William Kennedy ) and directed by Francis Ford Coppola , choreographed by Henry LeTang , and starred Richard Gere , Gregory Hines , Diane Lane , and Lonette McKee . The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American crime film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay co-written with Mario Puzo , starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro .