p2pnet news | Movies:- “The Godfather” director Francis Ford Coppola is appealing to thieves to return a back-up system stolen from his studio in Zoetrope, Argentina.

It holds 15 years of data, including writings and family photographs, he told Argentine broadcaster Todo Noticias, according to Associated Press.

“If I could get the backup back, it would save me years – all the photographs of my family, all my writing,” the story has Coppola saying

The robbery won’t dissuade him from leaving Argentina, where he plans to shoot “Argentine people are very nice,” says AP, but, “he said he was thinking of relocating his studio from the chic Palermo neighborhood to a Buenos Aires district where he felt safer.”

“Four robbers, at least one brandishing a knife, broke through a front door, tied up four employees and took four computers, cell phones and other valuables, apparently picking the studio at random, the newspaper Clarin reported, citing unnamed police sources,” the story states, adding:

“The Noticias Argentinas agency said one of the stolen computers contained the 68-year-old director’s script for ‘Tetro,’ a story about Italian immigrant artists set to begin shooting next year and starring Matt Dillon.”

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Also See:
Associated Press – Coppola Says Robbery Cost Years of Data, September 28, 2007

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