I always try to do things in my style, but in the end I always find myself making films that I don't know how to do.- the director smiles - It's a trait of my career, just think of works like Apocalypse now. Now with Megalopolis I would like to make a Roman epic with the story of an architect who wants to rebuild a utopian New York City after a devastating disaster ".
And he continues: "I was ready to shoot the film in 2001. Then September 11 happened and I realized that my vision of such a generous and friendly future world was shattered. I could not have made a film that talked about the goodness of the human being, when there was terrorism. So I let it go. Years later, while I was trying to lose a few pounds, I happened to listen to the recordings of that screenplay again and the spark started again ». The protagonist will be Adam Driver "It is a Roman epic set in New York - explains Coppola - Epics have often inspired American cinema and Rome has been an example from which US politics also drew inspiration. In my film there is indeed a decay, the senate is corrupt and things don't work. But then someone comes along to change things. Although it is a story born twenty years ago, I believe it is very current and realistic, thinking about what is happening ".