Noted winemaker filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola is looking to break into a new industry: video games. American Zoetrope has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a game adaptation of “Apocalypse Now,” seeking $900,000 to bring Coppola’s classic Vietnam drama to the realm of survival-horror RPGs. You might think the “Godfather” director could finance such a venture on his lonesome, but the Kickstarter assures us that “the traditional game publisher system won’t let this happen” — the developers believe they’d be forced to make a first-person shooter, and they’re hoping to make something more nuanced.

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“Forty years ago, I set out to make a personal art picture that could hopefully influence generations of viewers for years to come,” says Coppola in a statement. “Today, I’m joined by new daredevils, a team who...