The director’s mysterious new movie will apparently be launched in “a few months.”
Francis Ford Coppola’s subsequent epic, Megalopollis, is on the horizon. During a latest look on the Accutron podcast, Coppola confirmed that Megalopollis is on monitor for a 2024 launch date, and will make its debut as early as a number of months from now. That being stated, a precise launch date or distributor for the movie has but to be set.
“It’s only going to be a few months and it’ll be out,” Coppola revealed. “All I can say is I love the actors in it. It’s unusual, and it’s never boring. Other than that, wait and see.”
What Is Megalopolis About?
The plot of Megalopolis largely stays underneath wraps, however the movie is reportedly set in an alternate actuality model of New York City dubbed “New Rome.” In the movie, the destiny of Rome haunts a contemporary world unable to unravel its personal social issues on this epic story of political ambition, genius and conflicted love. The movie is considerably of a ardour mission for Coppola, who has been financing virtually all the movie’s $100 million funds himself.
Megalopolis has beforehand made headlines for stories that the movie’s funds has ballooned considerably, and full departments on the movie’s crew have both fired or resigned. The reported funds exceeds $120 million.
Who Is within the Cast of Megalopolis?
The ensemble forged for Megalopolis contains Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Chloe Fineman, Kathryn Hunter, Giancarlo Esposito Dustin Hoffman, DB Sweeney, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Bailey Ives, Grace Vanderwaal, and James Remar.
“What would make me really happy? It’s not winning a lot of Oscars because I already have a lot and maybe more than I deserve,” Coppola stated of his profession in a 2022 interview. “And it’s not that I make a lot of money, although I think over time it will make a lot of money because anything that the people keep looking at and finding new things, that makes money. So somewhere down the line, way after I’m gone, all I want is for them to discuss [Megalopolis] and, is the society we’re living in the only one available to us? How can we make it better? Education, mental health? What the movie really is proposing is that utopia is not a place. It’s how can we make everything better? Every year, come up with two, three or four ideas that make it better.”
“I would be smiling in my grave if I thought something like that happened, because people talk about what movies really mean if you give them something,” Coppola continued. “If you encouraged people to discuss marriage and education and health and justice and opportunities and freedom and all these wonderful things that human beings have conceived of. And ask the question, how can we make it even better? That would be great. Because I bet you they would make it better if they had that conversation.”
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