On Instagram, the filmmaker reassured his fans: “Da Dada (what my kids call me) is fine, taking an opportunity while in Rome to do the update of my 30 year old afib procedure with its inventor, a great Italian doctor - Dr. Andrea Natale! I am well!”

Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola has been discharged from the hospital in Rome where he was admitted two days ago, and is "feeling good", a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

Francis Ford Coppola is speaking out after it had been reported he was admitted to a hospital in Rome for a cardiac procedure. The filmmaker, 86, took to his social media page with a photo of himself from the Megalopolis photocall at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024 and assured his followers he was okay.