Francis Ford Coppola is finally ready for release Megalopolis. Director of The Godfather has been working sporadically on his passion project since the ’80s, but now appears set to release the film later this year.
The sci-fi drama reportedly follows an architect who seeks to rebuild New York City as a utopia after a major disaster.
Megalopolis It has a stellar cast made up of Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Giancarlo Esposito, Laurence Fishburne, Forest Whitaker, Dustin Hoffman, Chloe Fineman, Shia LaBeouf, Talia Shire, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jason Schwartzman and Jon Voight.
Filming wrapped last March, after Coppola reportedly financed the project himself. In a 2007 interview with Ai n’t It Cool News, Coppola revealed that he directed Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Jack (1996) and The Rainmaker (1997) simply to “save money” to make Megalopolis.
The story behind Megalopolis
Coppola suffered further production delays in 2001 following the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York City.
He scrapped his plans completely, even after a (magical-sounding) table read, which included Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Nicolas Cage, Paul Newman, James Gandolfini, Edie Falco and Uma Thurman. “This made it really, really difficult,” Coppola said at the time. “A movie about an aspirational utopia with New York as the main character and suddenly you couldn’t write about New York without addressing what happened and the implications of what happened. The world was attacked and I don’t know how to deal with it.” that. I tried.” In 2007, Coppola practically abandoned the project entirely.
Then, in May 2019, Coppola revived Megalopolis. James Caan, Oscar Isaac, Jude Law and Zendaya were in negotiations to star.
Now with filming wrapped and the leads already mentioned, we have a title card, which Coppola posted on Instagram this week. The photo is incredibly dark, but appears to depict a fallen statue.
Megalópolis is inspired by the Roman conspiracy between senator Lucius Sergius Catiline and Marcus Tullius Cicero. Driver’s character will reportedly be named Caesar, while Whitaker will play New York City Mayor Frank Cicero. Images of Driver taking a smoke break on set seemingly confirmed the Roman inspiration, as did photos of Shia LaBeouf.
An exact release date hasn’t been set for Megalopolis yet, but be sure to keep an eye out this summer – it’s rumored that the film will debut at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
Source: Ambito
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