Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis"

**Sands** · 03-20-2022, 03:52 PM

https://variety.com/2022/film/awards...me-1235204672/

Coppola hopes to continue to go against the grain with his next film, the long-gestating “Megalopolis,” which would mark his first film since 2011’s “Twixt.” He says he is hoping to shoot it in the fall, but notes, “If you choose to make a movie against the grain, it’s harder to get financed but it plays for 50 years.”

It’s been reported that Coppola is planning on investing $120 million of his own money, having sold a portion of his hugely successful wine empire. While little is known about the film’s plot, Coppola will say this: “I’m going to make ‘Megalopolis’ and I tell you that people are going to be scratching their heads saying, ‘Wow, it has so much in it that we didn’t understand at first that we understand now.’ That’s my hope.”

**EOLB** · 03-20-2022, 04:02 PM

Originally Posted by Sands

https://variety.com/2022/film/awards...me-1235204672/

It sounds like he's already justifying possibly middling reviews.

**lazarus** · 03-20-2022, 05:50 PM

It’s been reported that Coppola is planning on investing $120 million of his own money, having sold a portion of his hugely successful wine empire.

I love that he's going full George Lucas with this (although Lucas didn't have to sell of anything to fund the prequels).

Total creative control by an old master is something I want to see, regardless of how messy it turns out. People think Apocalypse Now is over the top and flawed and it's still a consensus masterpiece by critics/filmmakers, so who cares if Megalopolos is universally loved upon initial release? It's for posterity.

**EOLB** · 03-20-2022, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by lazarus

It's for posterity.

**Cricket** · 03-21-2022, 09:50 AM

I wonder if this really starts production in the fall. Zendaya is shooting Challengers this summer, and then moving into Dune 2. Cate Blanchett has Disclaimer soon, and then she's filming the Warwick Thornton after.

Coppola mentioned in that VF interview that this would take years, so I doubt it's coming in 2023, in any event. I just hope it happens!

**RRA** · 03-21-2022, 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by lazarus

It’s been reported that Coppola is planning on investing $120 million of his own money, having sold a portion of his hugely successful wine empire.

I love that he's going full George Lucas with this (although Lucas didn't have to sell of anything to fund the prequels).

Total creative control by an old master is something I want to see, regardless of how messy it turns out. People think Apocalypse Now is over the top and flawed and it's still a consensus masterpiece by critics/filmmakers, so who cares if Megalopolos is universally loved upon initial release? It's for posterity.

Or it could be a ONE FROM THE HEART, an interesting failure. For whatever merits that film has*, ultimately my opinion on how Coppola blew his fortune and got in debt for decades because of it remains the same: "He died on a hill for that?"

*=Dope soundtrack for one thing.

**lazarus** · 03-21-2022, 01:36 PM

What Megalopolis is unlikely to have is a miscast, off-putting lead akin to Frederic Forrest in the earlier film.

**Roberto** · 03-21-2022, 05:06 PM

I love One From The Heart.

**ban1o** · 03-21-2022, 08:30 PM

Is this film actually happening??? Like it really going to be filmed??

**Cricket** · 03-22-2022, 02:35 AM

Now I’m told Coppola will start shooting his next blockbuster in September. The shoot will go from September through January, largely in New York, on sound stages, and maybe in Europe.

The stars of “Megalopolis” are said to be Oscar Isaac — playing architect who wants to reimagine New York, as well as Zandaya, Cate Blanchett, and Michelle Pfeiffer among others.

If this actually comes out next year...?

God, don't. . .oh, it's ALL over the carpet now. Gross.

**Roberto** · 03-22-2022, 05:22 AM

**Sands** · 03-22-2022, 08:28 AM

Says Oscar has passed on the film.

**Brazilianmovies** · 03-22-2022, 08:44 AM

As Cricket said, going with this schedule, it's unlikely Cate and Zendaya will be available. The later will have a much bigger role on Dune and the former will already go straight from Disclaimer in Europe to The New Boy in Australia.

**Meryl Sheep** · 03-22-2022, 09:01 AM

Out of everyone on that list I hope he gets Pfeiffer on board the most. Would be fun to see her work with an iconic director again.

**Cricket** · 03-22-2022, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by Sands

Says Oscar has passed on the film.

I just noticed the article was updated. I wonder what happened. It'd be funny if he passed because he's playing Francis Ford Coppola in that Barry Levinson movie.

I don't know, haven't we been hearing the script is pretty wild? Mess if they lose Isaac, Blanchett and Zendaya, but not Jon Voight.

**Sands** · 03-22-2022, 10:12 AM

Elle Fanning was at his Walk of Fame celebration. I know they worked together on a film in 2011. Maybe she could be Zendaya's replacement if she can't do it.

**Aswin** · 03-22-2022, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by Sands

Elle Fanning was at his Walk of Fame celebration. I know they worked together on a film in 2011.

The film, Twixt, was 3rd on the Cahiers du Cinéma's Top Ten films of 2012

**Sands** · 03-22-2022, 10:32 AM

If Oscar can't do it maybe ask Jude Law again.

**Brazilianmovies** · 03-22-2022, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by Sands

Elle Fanning was at his Walk of Fame celebration. I know they worked together on a film in 2011. Maybe she could be Zendaya's replacement if she can't do it.

It's gonna be hard for Fanning to be Forest Whitaker's daughter.

**Jali** · 03-22-2022, 11:03 AM

Originally Posted by Aswin

The film, Twixt, was 3rd on the Cahiers du Cinéma's Top Ten 10 films of 2012

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