Editing Heart of Darkness (section)

=== Film and television ===
[[File:Boris Karloff Suspicion 1957.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|[[Boris Karloff]] (photo from 1957) played Kurtz in 1958]]

In 1958, the [[CBS]] television anthology ''[[Playhouse 90]]'' ([[Heart of Darkness (Playhouse 90)|S3E7]]) aired a loose 90-minute television play adaptation. This version, written by [[Stewart Stern]], uses the encounter between Marlow ([[Roddy McDowall]]) and Kurtz ([[Boris Karloff]]) as its final act, and adds a backstory in which Marlow had been Kurtz's adopted son. The cast includes [[Inga Swenson]] and [[Eartha Kitt]].<ref>Cast and credits are available at [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0675574/ "The Internet Movie Database"]. Retrieved 2 December 2010. A full recording can be viewed onsite by members of the public upon request at [[The Paley Center for Media]] (formerly the Museum of Television & Radio) in New York City and Los Angeles.</ref>

Perhaps the best known adaptation is [[Francis Ford Coppola]]'s 1979 film ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'', based on the screenplay by [[John Milius]], which moves the story from the Congo to [[Vietnam]] and [[Cambodia]] during the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite news |access-date=29 September 2008|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/03/movies/critic-s-notebook-aching-heart-of-darkness.html| url-status=live | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120909011936/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/03/movies/critic-s-notebook-aching-heart-of-darkness.html| archive-date=9 September 2012 |title= Aching Heart of Darkness  |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=3 August 2001 |author=Scott, A. O. }}{{cbignore}}</ref> In ''Apocalypse Now'', [[Martin Sheen]] stars as Captain Benjamin L. Willard, a [[United States Army|US Army]] Captain assigned to "terminate the command" of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, played by [[Marlon Brando]]. A film documenting the production, titled ''[[Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse]]'', was released in 1991. It chronicles a series of difficulties and challenges that director Coppola encountered during the making of the film, several of which mirror some of the novella's themes.

[[Heart of Darkness (1993 film)|A 1993 television film]] adaptation was written by [[Benedict Fitzgerald]] and directed by [[Nicolas Roeg]]. The film, which was aired by [[TNT (American TV network)|TNT]], starred [[Tim Roth]] as Marlow, [[John Malkovich]] as Kurtz, [[Isaach de Bankolé]] as Mfumu, and [[James Fox]] as Gosse.<ref>[http://www.ew.com/article/1994/03/11/heart-darkness "Heart of Darkness"], ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', 11 March 1994, retrieved 4 April 2010. [https://ew.com/article/1994/03/11/heart-darkness/].</ref>
[[James Gray (director)|James Gray]]'s 2019 science fiction film ''[[Ad Astra (film)|Ad Astra]]'' is loosely inspired by the events of the novel. It features [[Brad Pitt]] as an astronaut travelling to the edge of the [[Solar System]] to confront and potentially kill his father ([[Tommy Lee Jones]]), who has gone rogue.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Chitwood|first1=Adam|title=James Gray Says His Sci-Fi Movie 'Ad Astra' Starts Filming This Summer with Brad Pitt|url=http://collider.com/james-gray-brad-pitt-ad-astra-filming/| url-status=live | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211121/http://collider.com/james-gray-brad-pitt-ad-astra-filming/| archive-date=21 November 2021|website=[[Collider (website)|Collider]]|publisher=[[Complex (magazine)|Complex Media Inc.]]|accessdate=19 September 2017|date=10 April 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 2020, ''[[African Apocalypse]]'', a documentary film directed and produced by Rob Lemkin and featuring Femi Nylander portrays a journey from [[Oxford]], England to [[Niger]] on the trail of a colonial killer called Captain [[Paul Voulet]]. Voulet's descent into barbarity mirrors that of Kurtz in Conrad's ''Heart of Darkness''. Nylander discovers Voulet's massacres happened at exactly the same time that Conrad wrote his book in 1899. It was broadcast by the [[BBC]] in May 2021 as an episode of the [[Arena (British TV series)|''Arena'' documentary series]].<ref name="cunningham">{{cite news | last=Nwokorie | first=Lynn | url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/london-film-festival/screenings/african-apocalypse | title=African Apocalypse | work=British Film Institute | date=16 October 2020 | accessdate=12 December 2021 | archive-date=8 October 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008195001/https://www.bfi.org.uk/london-film-festival/screenings/african-apocalypse | url-status=dead }}</ref>

A British animated film adaption of the novella is planned, directed by Gerald Conn. It was written by Mark Jenkins and Mary Kate O Flanagan and is produced by Gritty Realism and [[Michael Sheen]]. Kurtz is voiced by Sheen and Harlequin by [[Andrew Scott (actor)|Andrew Scott]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ritman |first=Alex |date=17 January 2019 |title=Michael Sheen, Matthew Rhys, Andrew Scott Board 'Heart of Darkness' Animated Adaptation (Exclusive) |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/michael-sheen-matthew-rhys-andrew-scott-board-heart-darkness-animated-adaptation-1176766/ |access-date=27 April 2023 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref> The animation uses sand to better convey atmosphere of the book.<ref>{{Cite web |title=New film sets Conrad's classic 'Heart of Darkness' in sand |url=https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/new-film-sets-conrads-classic-heart-of-darkness-in-sand-4306 |access-date=27 April 2023 |website=www.thefirstnews.com |language=en}}</ref> A Brazilian animated film (2023) also adapts the novella. It is directed by Rogério Nunes and Alois Di Leo and moves the story to a near future [[Rio de Janeiro]].<ref>{{Citation |last=hype.cg |title=Heart of Darkness - Teaser |date=27 April 2016 |url=https://vimeo.com/164430398 |access-date=27 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Animation |first=SINLOGO |title=Heart of Darkness - Episode 4 - Trailer |date=8 June 2018 |url=https://vimeo.com/274141543 |access-date=27 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Heart of Darkness |url=https://www.marchedufilm.com/projects/heart-of-darkness/ |access-date=27 April 2023 |website=Marché du Film |language=en-US}}</ref>