 The project has also suffered setbacks due to the bankruptcy of several potential backers ; both Dino De Laurentiis 's De Laurentiis Entertainment Group and Francis Ford Coppola 's American Zoetrope were attached to the project at different times ; both production companies went bankrupt before work could begin . Lynch had stayed with Coppola in the latter 's home in Napa County , California , while Coppola and musician Sting read the script several times ; however the failure of 1982 's One from the Heart forced Zoetrope to file for bankruptcy . 
