 Marlon Brando (qv) was paid $1 million in advance. He threatened  to quit and keep the advance. Coppola told his agent that he didnt  care, and if they couldnt get Brando, they would try  Jack Nicholson (qv), Robert Redford (I) (qv), and then  Al Pacino (qv). Brando eventually turned up late, drunk, 40kg  overweight, and admitted he hadnt read the script or even "Heart of  Darkness", the book it was based on. He read Coppolas script, and  refused to do it. After days of arguments over single lines of  dialogue, an ad