Buzz continues to grow in Megalopolisthe director’s decades-in-the-making film Francis Ford Coppola. The film, self-financed by the 85-year-old director, has yet to find a distributor in the US. With first photos released earlier this week, as well as today’s trailer, the film’s fortunes may soon change: according to Coppola, the $120 million epic will was given to buyers at the Cannes Film Festival, where the film will officially premiere in competition on November 11. May 16.
The film has a large cast including: Driver Adam, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Square, Giancarlo Esposito, Shia LaBeouf, Dustin Hoffman, Jon VoightAnd Laurence Fishburne. Its content is much harder to quantify: write to Vanity fairthe director cited H.G. Wells, the September 11 attacks and the 63 BC battle between Roman politician Cicero and an insurrectionist named Catiline.
“The story will take place in a somewhat stylized New York City, portrayed as the center of world power, and Cicero will be mayor during a time of great financial upheaval, such as the financial crisis under former Mayor Dinkins,” director of Godfather And The end of the world is now wrote to explain his 40-year development Megalopolis script.
“Cesar, on the other hand, would have been a master builder, a great architect, designer and scientist incorporating elements of Robert Moses, as portrayed in the excellent biography .” power broker, with architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Raymond Loewy, Norman Bel Geddes, or Walter Gropius.”
We don’t see any of that in the clip that shows the black-clad Driver stepping off the edge of a domed skyscraper and then seemingly stopping time. Those attending an April screening in Los Angeles could get a better idea of how the trailer might appear in the final film, in which Driver’s character—an architect intent on building rebuilding a ruined city—confronting a corrupt mayor (Esposito) who prefers the status quo.
This article has been updated.
