All About Francis Ford Coppola’s Dream

In turn, ‘Megalopolis’ is the greatest dream of the dreamer of America. A first development of the project, of which we had first news in the year 2000, then had to be paralyzed due to the 9/11 attacks. It seemed that it was going to be canceled, but in 2019 we had news about it again, good and bad. Coppola said: “Studios aren’t very interested in movies like ‘Megalopolis.'” Although it contrasted with another great truth: “In the next five years the entire movie industry will end up owned by Apple, Facebook, Amazon. One of these emerging giants is intrigued by the idea.”

What happened to ‘Megalopolis’? Will we see it in theaters soon? When we say it’s big, what budget do we mean? Who will be the visible face of this new great daydream?

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‘Megalopolis’: Release date

According to its creator, the ‘Megalopolis’ project was born days after the premiere of ‘Apocalypse Now’. In fact, Coppola came to see the film as a totally personal form of expression. In 2001 he tried to raise the film from an original scriptthe first for years (his previous films were always about other people’s stories: ‘Legitimate Defense, by John Grisham’ was based on the novel by John Grisham‘Cotton Club’ had a history of mario puzzoetc).

In 2001 the filming of the second unit would begin (there are images of that, although we have not had access to them), at the same time that names were being closed for a first-class cast. As protagonists, Robert DeNiro and Nicolas Cage. However, the 9/11 attacks put the film on indefinite hold…until today! This week, Coppola has announced that he is set to shoot the movie in the fall of 2022.

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‘Megalopolis’: Synopsis

The short, abstract and very elevated version of the film is “a love story that also serves as a philosophical investigation into the nature of man”. But this could be half of the cinema made in the last century, from ‘Doctor Zhivago’ to ‘Say Yes’. In the absence of an official synopsis, we have compiled these pieces of narrative from the interventions that Coppola has been making over the years.

The plot would focus on an architect who wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia after disaster that has made the city ashes. The metropolis will be called New Rome and the filmmaker has anticipated that it will look like a classic film in the tradition of Roman epics. The second leading role will go to the Mayor, who tries to truncate the project.

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‘Megalopolis’: Cast

From Robert De Niro and Nicolas Cage in 2001, Coppola went on to tinker with the names of Jude Law and Shia LaBeouf when he revived pre-production in 2019. So, LaBeouf was having a second (and much thought-out) return to Hollywood indieacting in critical hits for a few years: he was endorsed by ‘American Honey’, ‘Borg McEnroe’, ‘Honey Boy’… Jude Law in 2019 was the very Pope of Rome (he had also been the voice of the butler of ‘ Neo Yokio’, we hope that someone remembers the prank of Jaden Smith).

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However, the movie scene is unstable and by 2022 other names reign in the firmament. Day by day, the most famous name to interpret the architect is Oscar Isaac, who, by the way, must have the power of omnipresence to fit such a string of projects ahead on his agenda. At the moment, he will be the Moon Knight and the voice of Miguel O’Hara (from ‘Spider-Man: Crossing the Multiverse’) for the Marvel Universe, Snake for the movie that adapts the video game ‘Metal Gear Solid’ and the same Francis Ford Coppolafor the biopic that Barry Levinson has in hand (‘Francis and the Godfather’), along with Jake Gyllenhaal for HBO.

For the rest of the cast, the names of Cate Blanchett, Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jude Law (would I repeat role?), James CaanForest Whitaker and Zendaya. The list of celebrities begins to look dangerously like a movie wes anderson.

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‘Megalopolis’: Budget

That in matters of money we would all like to be a bit like Francis Ford Coppola, this is the real headline. Coppola announced in an interview for GQ that, since no studio has wanted to buy the film from him with total freedom, will put money out of his own pocket to see it done. We are talking about 120 million dollars, which he has obtained “cash” from the sale of an important part of his wine empire.

This is how the filmmaker explained his decision: “Well, if I were Disney, or Paramount, or Netflix, and I had to raise $120 million, and you had to start saying yes and paying people, how would you do it? They all do it in one way or another. They have a line of credit, yes? Me [también] I have one”. And we who rejoice, Francis.

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He continued explaining: “It’s not like $120 million is all I have. I have already bequeathed a lot to all my children. Of course, the greatest thing that I leave to my offspring is know-how and talent. [Mis hijos] they won’t have any problem. They are all very capable. And they have Inglenook [la bodega familiar], where we are. There are no debts around here. None”.

He says that such stoicism is due, in any case, to the fact that no big Hollywood executive has wanted his movie. Neither Apple, nor Facebook, nor Amazon, as Coppola predicted years ago.

We do love her. Soon, if possible.

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