We are around 5 weeks away before production is said to begin on Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis.”
The writer/director revealed today that “Megalopolis” will be the first feature shot on the LED volume stage at newly opened Prysm Stages at Trilith Studios in Atlanta, Georgia.
Per an official statement, Coppola aims to have “one foot in the past and one in the future.”
The Prysm Stage is said to have top of the line practical lighting, grip and camera, all integrated into a state-of-the-art virtual production volume. Along with the new technology available to him at Trilith, Coppola plans to use new, never-before-seen techniques to create “Megalopolis.” He didn’t specify what they were.
The film stars Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Forest Whitaker, Laurence Fishburne, Jon Voight, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jason Schwartzman, and Kathryn Hunter.
The legendary Oscar-winning director is self-funding “Megalopolis,” a passion project more than three decades in the making. The cost is said to be around $120 million for the epic.
“Megalopolis” will be a Roman-style epic in the story of an architect who wants to rebuild a utopian New York City after a devastating disaster.
Production is set to begin in November and run through March 2023.