{"id":226271,"date":"2024-05-09T17:02:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T14:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/?p=226271"},"modified":"2024-05-09T17:06:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T14:06:10","slug":"francis-ford-coppola-s-megalopolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/francis-ford-coppola-s-megalopolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s Megalopolis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Megalopolis has been taking shape inside Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s mind for nearly half of his life, and now he\u2019s finally ready to show it to the world. The 85-year-old director of The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, and The Conversation has finally completed his operatic passion project, at considerable personal cost. It will debut next month at the Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n

The movie is about the personal, political, and romantic clashes that arise during a battle to construct an American utopia, and it was shaped in part by the speculative prophecy of H.G. Wells, a murderous conspiracy from ancient Roman history, the devastation of the September 11 attacks, and the outsize influence of attractive cable news hosts, among a litany of other inspirations. \u201cTo that, I added everything I had ever read or learned about,\u201d Coppola says in a statement.<\/p>\n

Adam Driver as the idealistic architect and artist planning to rebuild a city that has fallen to ruins, and Nathalie Emmanuel as the socialite daughter of his nemesis, a corrupt mayor (Giancarlo Esposito), who likes his municipal kingdom the way it is. In his official logline for the film, Coppola describes Driver\u2019s character as having the \u201cpower to stop time,\u201d while Emmanuel\u2019s character is caught between the two, deeply in love with the artist but loyal to her hard-charging father, \u201cforcing her to discover what she truly believes humanity deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The sprawling ensemble also includes Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne (who was a teenager soldier in Apocalypse Now), Kathryn Hunter, singer Grace VanderWaal, and James Remar, as well as the filmmaker\u2019s sister, The Godfather actor Talia Shire, and her son (Coppola\u2019s nephew) Jason Schwartzman.<\/p>\n

Coppola declined to appear in interviews for this first look – after all, his wife of 61 years, Eleanor, passed away earlier this month, and the director and his family remain in mourning.<\/p>\n

Instead, he offered this statement:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe seeds for Megalopolis were planted when as a kid I saw H.G. Wells\u2019s Things to Come,\u201d Coppola says. \u201cThis 1930s Korda classic is about building the world of tomorrow, and has always been with me, first as the \u2018boy scientist\u2019 I was and later as a filmmaker.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Megalopolis has been taking shape inside Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s mind for nearly half of his life, and now he\u2019s finally ready to show it to the world. The 85-year-old director of The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, and The Conversation has finally completed his operatic passion project, at considerable personal cost. It will debut next month at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":226258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18560,18563,18542],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226273,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226271\/revisions\/226273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}