Plenty of A-list filmmakers are starting to weigh in on Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis.” Screen Rant has asked Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Guillermo del Toro and Spike Jonze for their reactions to Coppola’s ambitiously divisive epic, and they all heap much praise on the film.
Spike Jonze: “I’m still smiling from it. Radical. I’ve never seen anything like it. I remember hearing about it but never could have imagined what it came to be. There was so much I loved about it, but the tone was the thing that got most under my skin. It was funny and alive and electric and made the world and ideas so vivid. The performances Francis created with the actors and the details of the world… I laughed out loud the whole time. The play and surrealism and joy of creating. It’s incredible that he’s been thinking and working on it as long as he has but it still felt of today, about now and the world we are both in and careening towards.”
Guillermo del Toro: “Francis is still the same bold, fearless, inventive filmmaker that he was in his 20’s. I was Swept by Megalopolis!”
Steven Soderbergh: “WOW! This might be the craziest thing ever shot on American soil. Certainly, one of the most sustained acts of pure imagination I’ve ever seen. I dreamt about it all night—it was inspiring!”