Francis Ford Coppola confirmed a brand new trailer for his science fiction movie Megalopolis, which can debut throughout this yr’s 77th version of the Cannes Pageant, which begins in the present day.
Megalopolis was financed and shot by Coppola himself (it price him $120 million), who has not but discovered a distributor for his present – in accordance with data from viewers after the primary present, Megalopolis has little business potential. Coppola himself does not fear an excessive amount of about it. Sam acknowledged:
That is precisely what occurred with “Apocalypse Now” 40 years in the past. Conflicting views had been expressed, however audiences nonetheless went to see the movie, and it stays extremely worthwhile to this present day. I am positive it is going to be the identical with “Megalopolis”. It should stand the check of time.
Underneath the teaser, the creator wrote that it was the most effective he had the privilege of making.
That is how one of many journalists described the plot of the movie.
“An accident destroys a New York-like metropolis that was already falling aside, bringing a conflict of visions for the longer term. On one aspect stands bold architectural idealist Caesar (Adam Driver). On the opposite, his mortal enemy, Mayor Frank Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito). The talk is whether or not to simply accept the longer term and construct a utopia from renewable supplies, or undertake a “enterprise as normal” reconstruction technique stuffed with concrete, corruption and affect peddling on the expense of the decrease class. On this feud is the mayor’s daughter, Julia (Nathalie Emmanuel), a troubled younger lady who has grown up with affect and has grown bored with being a sensational subject within the tabloids, looking for which means in her life.”
The movie’s solid additionally contains Laurence Fishburne, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Chloe Fineman, Kathryn Hunter, Dustin Hoffman, DBSweeney, Jason Schwartzman, Baily Ives, Grace Vanderwaal and James Remar.
