The film marks the culmination of a decades-long project by Coppola, who began working on the script for Megalopolis in the 1980s.
Francis Ford Coppola takes us deeper into its Megalopolis with a second trailer for his new epic film, which debuts in U.S. theaters via Lionsgate on September 27.
The new trailer, which opens with the line “True genius is often misunderstood,” takes a swipe at critics who have over the years been harsh in their criticism of his most legendary films. The Godfather from 1972 until Apocalypse NowThe trailer includes excerpts from negative reviews by famous film critics.
“A filmmaker has always been ahead of his time,” says a narrator. The new trailer positions Coppola’s latest epic, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to mixed reviews, as a film that will win over audiences and age well, proving critics wrong.
What Megalopolis is about
Starring Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight and Jason SchwartzmanMegalopolis chronicles the collapse of a future American empire and references the fall of Rome. In the trailer, visionary architect Caesar Catilina (Driver) imagines a futuristic New York in which radical political figures threaten to “destroy eternity.”
The film marks the culmination of a decades-long project for Coppola, who began working on the script for Megalopolis in the 1980s. He believes in the movie so much that he invested $120 million of his own money into it.
A month after its divisive Cannes premiere, which nonetheless earned the film a seven-minute standing ovation, Megalopolis has finally landed a theatrical partner in Lionsgate, along with a global commitment from Imax.
Source: Ambito
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