In his vast career, Francis Ford Coppola made masterpieces (Apocalypse Now, The Godfather And The Godfather II, The Conversation)cult classics (Dracula by Bram Stoker, The Outsiders)and curious to know what’s going on (The Godfather III, Peggy Sue got married). Who go Megalopolis be? While the world waits to see the film he has had in mind for decadesthe writer-director gives fans a few crumbs to keep going.
In a statement provided to Vanity Fair, as well as a first image which you can see in the magazine’s X post below, Coppola – who invested $120 million of his own money in the project and who just turned 85 – gave a little of hope to science fiction fans by noting the character of Adam Driver. has the “power to stop time”. These are Driver, who plays an “idealistic architect and artist planning to rebuild a city that has fallen into ruins” and Game Of Thrones” Nathalie Emmanuel, who plays the daughter of the town’s corrupt mayor (Giancarlo Esposito) and who falls in love with Driver’s character, pictured.
So we have a dystopian city and a character who can “stop time” (literally or metaphorically?), plus a cast that also includes Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Jason Schwartzman and others . In his statement to Vanity Fair, Coppola described the influences he relied on during the forty years he dreamed of directing Megalopolisincluding a 1936 science fiction classic Things to comeadapted by HG Wells himself from his book The shape of things to come. ““It’s about building the world of tomorrow, and that has always been with me, first as the ‘boy scientist’ that I was and later as a filmmaker,” Coppola told the magazine.
He also calls his film “a Roman epic set in modern America,” linking both ancient history and more recent moments in New York City, as far-reaching as 9/11 and “the antics of Studio 54”. He did this “so that everything in my story would be true and take place either in modern New York or ancient Rome.” To this I added everything I had read or learned.
While we wonder what Megalopolis will be, here’s what Coppola said he hopes audiences take away: “It’s my dream that Megalopolis will become a perennial New Year’s Eve favorite, with audiences subsequently discussing not their new diet or their resolution to not smoke, but rather this simple question: “Is the society we live in the only one that our disposal? »
Megalopolis will debut at the Cannes Film Festival next month; hopefully it will then make its way to the US for theaters and streaming.
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