Francis Ford Coppola has added Adam Driver to his cast for the self-funded epic “Megalopolis”. Driver is set to play the lead role in the film, which is still set to shoot in September and has had its cast set aside 6 months of their time for production (until February).
Driver will be part of a cast that also includes Nathalie Emmanuel, Forest Whitaker, Laurence Fishburne and Jon Voight. Cate Blanchett is rumored to also have a cameo .
A synopsis has leaked for the film, it sounds absolutely EPIC:
“The fate of Rome haunts a modern world unable to solve its own social problems in this epic story of political ambition, genius, and conflicted love.”
So, how many A-list directors has Driver now worked with in his short, but staggeringly impressive career? Coppola, Scorsese, Coen, Eastwood, Baumbach, Spielberg, Abrams, Jarmusch, Nichols, Soderbergh, Scott, Abrams, Lee, Gilliam, and Carax …