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It is a film called Megalopolis, and Coppola has been trying to make it, intermittently, for more than 40 years. If I could summarize the plot for you in a concise way, I would, but I can't, because Coppola can't either. Ask him. “It's very simple,” he'll say. “The premise of Megalopolis? Well, it's basically… I would ask you a question, first of all: Do you know much about utopia?”

The best I can do, after literally hours talking about it with him, is this: It's a love story that is also a philosophical investigation of the nature of man; it's set in New York, but a New York steeped in echoes of ancient Rome; its scale and ambition are vast enough that Coppola has estimated that it will cost $120 million to make. What he dreams about, he said, is creating something like It's a Wonderful Life—a movie everyone goes to see, once a year, forever. “On New Year's, instead of talking about the fact that you're going to give up carbohydrates, I'd like this one question to be discussed, which is: Is the society we live in the only one available to us? And discuss it.”

Never Cursed wrote: Thu May 05, 2022 11:07 pm Megalopolis will begin a six-month schedule of filming in New York and Atlanta this September - confirmed cast includes Forest Whitaker, Cate Blanchett, Jon Voight, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, James Caan, and Zendaya

swo17 wrote:Is there no one that could be the Julia Stiles to her Erika Christensen?

therewillbeblus wrote: Tue Oct 04, 2022 9:24 pm Megalopolis cast finalized, with a few new additions: Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Shia LaBeouf, Jason Schwartzman, Grace Vanderwaal, Kathryn Hunter, James Remar. Dustin Hoffman, Chloe Fineman, Isabelle Kusman, D.B. Sweeney, Bailey Ives.

therewillbeblus wrote: Tue Oct 04, 2022 9:24 pm Megalopolis cast finalized, with a few new additions: Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Shia LaBeouf, Jason Schwartzman, Grace Vanderwaal, Kathryn Hunter, James Remar. Dustin Hoffman, Chloe Fineman, Isabelle Kusman, D.B. Sweeney, Bailey Ives.

beamish14 wrote: Tue Oct 04, 2022 9:42 pm [The first film to feature mother/son Shire and Schwartzman, I think.

Francis Ford Coppola’s latest movie, the sci-fi-tinged Megalopolis, has descended into chaos, according to multiple sources. The movie, currently halfway through shooting in Atlanta, has in the last week lost key creative talent including its production designer and supervising art director. That’s on top of losing the entire visual effects team in the first part of December.

Sources say Coppola, who has never made an effects-heavy movie, fired almost his entire visual effects team Dec. 9, with the rest of that department soon following. Mark Russell, a veteran whose credits include In the Heights and The Wolf of Wall Street, was leading the team as visual effects production supervisor. (Coppola famously fired his special effects department on Dracula 30 years ago.)

More recently, production designer Beth Mickle and supervising art director David Scott have departed. Between firings and resignations, a source says the film now has no art department. Russell, Mickle and Scott did not respond to requests for comment.

To many insiders, the production is giving severe Apocalypse Now redux vibes, and it’s one on which the iconoclastic 83-year-old director is breaking a cardinal Hollywood rule: Never spend your own money.

yoloswegmaster wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:50 am Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ in Peril Amid Ballooning Budget, Crew Exodus

Francis Ford Coppola’s latest movie, the sci-fi-tinged Megalopolis, has descended into chaos, according to multiple sources. The movie, currently halfway through shooting in Atlanta, has in the last week lost key creative talent including its production designer and supervising art director. That’s on top of losing the entire visual effects team in the first part of December.

Sources say Coppola, who has never made an effects-heavy movie, fired almost his entire visual effects team Dec. 9, with the rest of that department soon following. Mark Russell, a veteran whose credits include In the Heights and The Wolf of Wall Street, was leading the team as visual effects production supervisor. (Coppola famously fired his special effects department on Dracula 30 years ago.)

More recently, production designer Beth Mickle and supervising art director David Scott have departed. Between firings and resignations, a source says the film now has no art department. Russell, Mickle and Scott did not respond to requests for comment.

DarkImbecile wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 1:05 am

To many insiders, the production is giving severe Apocalypse Now redux vibes, and it’s one on which the iconoclastic 83-year-old director is breaking a cardinal Hollywood rule: Never spend your own money.

So this will also be one of the best movies ever made, then?

tolbs1010 wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:04 am

DarkImbecile wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 1:05 am

To many insiders, the production is giving severe Apocalypse Now redux vibes, and it’s one on which the iconoclastic 83-year-old director is breaking a cardinal Hollywood rule: Never spend your own money.

So this will also be one of the best movies ever made, then?

The tell-all documentary will be even better. MegaFlopolis: A Filmmaker's Abyss

willoneill wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 4:54 am

tolbs1010 wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:04 am

DarkImbecile wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 1:05 am
So this will also be one of the best movies ever made, then?

The tell-all documentary will be even better. MegaFlopolis: A Filmmaker's Abyss

Apparently Mike Figgis is on set documenting everything.

therewillbeblus wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 5:58 pm Some listings say 129 minutes and 139 minutes, but this article suggests it will be around the same runtime of 88 minutes just with a different edit. It also seems like a bunch of adult film actors(?!) who weren't in the first film are listed in this one- so I have no idea what to expect. Hope we hear more concrete news soon.