The madman is actually going through with it. Here are some on-set photos of Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis.
“Megalopolis” started production last month in Atlanta. The main cast will be composed of Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Shia LaBeouf, Jason Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffman, Kathryn Hunter, Aubrey Plaza and James Remar.
Production is set to run through March 2023. There is, obviously, no release date as of now. I would think “Megalopolis” gets a 2024 slot given all the VFX and new technology that will be used on the film.
I am absolutely fascinated by the prospect of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” finally getting made. The man is shelling out his own money to help produce this long-gestating passion project of his.
It’s been reported that Coppola will invest $120 million of his own money to make the damn thing The legendary writer-director sold a portion of his wine empire to finance the upcoming epic. Why? Because he damn well can. He probably has money to spare. At least this will give the master TOTAL CREATIVE CONTROL over the whole project.
Coppola: “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.”
