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Francis Ford Coppola, director of the Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now, has been planning his next movie, Megalopolis, since 1979. The story, a sci-fi thriller about an architect who wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating incident, has been evolving over decades, and anyone asked about it seemed to describe a grand, sweeping masterpiece that feels impossible to make. But that didn’t stop Coppola from holding table reads with all-star casts.

Finally, in 2019, Coppola decided not to wait on funders to take a chance on such risky material. Megalopolis became the ultimate creative project, self-funded, written, and directed all by Coppola himself, boasting a cast including Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, and Nathalie Emmanuel. Five years later, the movie was finally screened for potential buyers last week, and reactions were both exciting and confusing.

Sources told Puck’s Matthew Belloni that one attendee said the movie had “zero commercial prospects, and good for him,” and another said it was “unflinching in how batsh*t crazy it is” while Deadline described it as “crackling with ideas that fuse the past with the future, with an epic and highly visual fable that plays perfectly on an IMAX screen.”

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago (3 children)

They had me at "batshit crazy".

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Batshit crazy sci-fi, decades in the works, completely self-funded, from a beloved director? This gon' be gud, even if it sucks.

[–] niktemadur 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The same guy who did the same thing back in the 70s and the result was "Apocalypse Now"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I didn't see that one, but I did see Jack, which was pretty good, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

This sounds like my kinda thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They had me at "Adam Driver with that haircut"

[–] khannie 4 points 7 months ago

The cast looks absolutely incredible.

Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, Adam Driver, Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Fishburne and on and on....

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10128846/