it is Francis Ford Coppola's first directed film since 1997's The Rainmaker. It will be distributed through Sony Pictures Classics in the United States and Pathé in the UK and France.

He told the San Francisco Chronicle in May 2007 "It's very personal... Francis wrote the screenplay based on a book he loves very much, and the treatment is very original. I think people will be surprised when they see it."[citation needed]

The film was shot with a Sony HDC-F900 in High Definition and edited on Final Cut Pro 5.[citation needed]

The movie has been screened in front of friends and fellow directors after the 79th Academy Awards Ceremony (in which he was a presenter). Martin Scorsese, Dennis Hopper, Andy Garcia, Matt Dillon, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Spike Jonze, John Singleton, the Hughes Brothers, Alfonso Cuarón, Gus Van Sant and Fred Roos attended the screening.[citation needed]

Coppola has gone on record as saying that the movie is very personal, and not a standard Hollywood film. Originally the movie was to be distributed by United Artists.[citation needed] However, Sony Pictures Classics is going to handle a limited US release of the film on December 14, 2007.

It was also announced that a trailer for the film will be on the Collector's Edition DVD of Bram Stoker's Dracula, another film by Coppola, which is to be released in early October 2007.

The September issue of American Zoetrope was construed as a special tribute to Youth Without Youth. The first half, edited by Tim Roth, contains photographs by Roth and short stories that address themes relevant to the story. The second half consists of interviews with the cast and crew, inserts penned by Coppola about the film making process, and the complete text of Eliade's novella.

• Youth Without Youth (official web site)
• BBC: Coppola 'plans directing return'
• FilmSpot: Youth Without Youth