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Description acceptable. According to actor Gary Morgan, one participant in this task remarked “I don’t know if I’m going to live through [this task]” and said “goodbye to everyone” beforehand. Police questioned the group undertaking this task and seized their passports after they accidentally purchased real corpses from a grave robber. Several vehicles involved in this task had to be re-routed at random to engage in conflict against the New People’s Army. Massive increases in the (*) price of completing this task were incurred when it was halted for over a month by Typhoon Olga. While performing this task, one actor had to be temporarily replaced by his brother Joe Estevez after he suffered a heart attack at 36 years old. Participants in this task filmed the ritualistic slaughter of a water buffalo which one later included in a documentary she made about this task. For 10 points, Hearts of Darkness chronicles what extremely arduous task that resulted in a 1979 Francis Ford Coppola film? ■END■
ANSWER: Principal photography for Apocalypse Now [Accept reasonable equivalents; accept filming Apocalypse Now or producing Apocalypse Now or shooting Apocalypse Now or simply making Apocalypse Now or creating Apocalypse Now; accept more specific answers that reference shooting specific scenes from Apocalypse Now]
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