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!”

The legendary filmmaker had wrapped a six-city U.S. tour in support of 'Megalopolis' in partnership with Live Nation at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts on Friday night.

Francis Ford Coppola was gripped by "sheer terror" when he was recently rushed to hospital in Italy – due to his post-traumatic stress over surviving polio as a child, RadarOnline.com can reveal. The Oscar-winning director, 86, was hospitalized on August 5 while in Rome, sparking local media reports of a potential cardiac episode.