Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis First Look: Adam Driver Stops Time
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Adam Driver is an architect who can management time in the first-look clip for Francis Ford Coppola‘s upcoming, self-funded movie, Megalopolis.
Within the more-than-two-minute video, Driver’s Cesar Catilina makes his manner onto the sting of a skyscraper, seemingly contemplating leaping. As he’s about to totally step off the constructing, he shouts “Time cease” and the vehicles beneath him pause at his command, and he leans again onto secure footing.
The movie, which is able to premiere on the Cannes Movie Competition on Could 17, is a Roman Epic set in an imagined Trendy America, in accordance with its description.
“The Metropolis of New Rome should change, inflicting battle between Cesar Catilina, a genius artist who seeks to leap right into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), who stays dedicated to a regressive established order, perpetuating greed, particular pursuits and partisan warfare,” the logline reads. “Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero (Nathalie Emmanuel), the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties, forcing her to find what she actually believes humanity deserves.”
Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Jason Schwartzman, Laurence Fishburne, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman, James Remar, D.B. Sweeney and Dustin Hoffman spherical out the forged of the director’s self-funded movie.
Coppola first started writing Megalopolis in 1983, and the movie reportedly value $120 million to make, which was funded partially by the sale of a good portion of the director’s wine empire. He hosted a screening of the mission on the finish of March for potential consumers, with Common’s Donna Langley, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos and Sony’s Tom Rothman all attending.
Nevertheless, over a month later, the movie continues to be looking for distribution, as a number of of the screening’s attendees informed The Hollywood Reporter that Megalopolis will face an uphill battle. One distributor stated, “There may be simply no technique to place this film,” whereas one other famous that whereas “everyone seems to be rooting” for the director, “there may be there may be the enterprise facet of issues.”
One studio head even stated, “It’s so not good, and it was so unhappy watching it. Anyone who places P&A [prints and advertising] behind it, you’re going to lose cash.”
Nevertheless, not all responses to Megalopolis had been detrimental. A specialty label founder shared, “I preferred it enormously,” including it’s a “very massive movie” that “has an actual life. … How do you outline business? You have a look at a film like Blade Runner, and it turned a lot extra business than on opening weekend.”
