Tag: Megalopolis
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How Often Does Francis Ford Coppola Think About the Roman Empire? ‘Quite a Lot,’ Says Director: It ‘Was the Inspiration’ for ‘Megalopolis’
Francis Ford Coppola is joining the Roman Empire TikTok trend by asking himself the viral question: “How often do you think about the Roman Empire?”“How often do I think of Ancient Rome? Quite a lot, as the Roman Republic served as the example for my country America and its institutions, and was the inspiration for…
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Jon Hamm Thought Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ Was Impossible to Make
As Francis Ford Coppola moves full steam ahead on post-production of his new movie Megalopolis – the first project he directs in seven years – people who participated on it are starting to open up and talk about their impressions of the story and their involvement. In a participation on the podcast Back to One…
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Adam Driver Talks ’65,’ Fighting Dinosaurs, and Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’
On March 10, the writers of A Quiet Place are taking audiences back to Earth in 65, a new spin on the alien planet thriller. In the movie directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods and Adam Driver is Mills, the pilot and one of the few survivors of a crash-landed spacecraft now marooned on…
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Francis Ford Coppola to Spend His Own $120 Million on New Film: I Don’t Care ‘About the Financial Impact’
Francis Ford Coppola is putting down $120 million of his own money to make his long-in-the-works passion project “Megalopolis.” Coppola wrote “Megalopolis” in the early 1980s and has been reportedly in talks with Oscar Isaac, Forest Whitaker and Cate Blanchett to finally get the film off the ground. The issue Coppola has faced is that…
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Francis Ford Coppola on How ‘Apocalypse Now’ Was Deemed a Failure — and Nearly Inventing Smartphones
Francis Ford Coppola recently worked cinephiles into a frenzy by saying that, after an eight-year absence from filmmaking, he’d finally begun work on long-planned passion project “Megalopolis,” a film that’s always been dogged by funding issues. That followed his unspooling of “Apocalypse Now: Final Cut” at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, which cut certain…
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‘Megalopolis’: Francis Ford Coppola Confirms Jude Law & Shia Labeouf Approached For Roles
Despite being a man that just hit the age of 80, filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola is only now making the film that he feels is his dream project. After various awards and the adoration of film fans around the world, thanks to classics like “The Godfather” series, “Apocalypse Now,” “The Cotton Club,” “Patton,” and “The…