Francis Ford Coppola is named a filmmaker who made masterpieces in addition to disastrous movies. Now, the legendary auteur’s newest movie, “Megalopolis,” will make its Cannes debut, and contemplating the status of the movie pageant, it may be mentioned that “Megalopolis” is one other masterpiece in Coppola’s profession. In response to The Hollywood Reporter, Coppola’s extremely anticipated, self-funded function “Megalopolis” has landed a Cannes debut. The movie will display screen in competitors on the pageant on Might 17 in a gala premiere on the 77th annual pageant.

The upcoming function is Coppola’s greatest mission. He conceived the thought in 1979 whereas filming Apocalypse Now. The movie price round $120 million. The filmmaker undeniably hustled to handle the sufficient funds. For example, a number of the funding got here from promoting a big a part of his wine enterprise.

Just lately, the movie had a screening for potential consumers, with business figures like Common’s Donna Langley, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, and Sony’s Tom Rothman in attendance at Common CityWalk. It’s nonetheless in search of a distributor, however Coppola desires it to be launched in Imax theaters. Whereas the mission is certainly large for Coppola, throughout its screening it obtained blended evaluations. A number of in attendance on the Megalopolis screening described their experiences to The Hollywood Reporter, with one studio head saying, “It’s so not good, and it was so unhappy watching it. Anyone who places P&A behind it, you’re going to lose cash.” One other provided: “I favored it enormously.”

What’s Megalopolis all about?

“Megalopolis” is an upcoming American epic science fiction drama movie written, directed, and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. The movie’s storyline follows an accident that destroys a New York Metropolis-like metropolis that’s already in decay. An architectural idealist, Caesar, goals to rebuild town as a utopia. Nevertheless, the mayor, Frank Cicero, thinks in any other case, partly due to corruption and energy brokering. In the meantime, Frank’s daughter, Julia, bored with the eye and energy she was born with, appears to be like for that means in her life.

Sound designer Richard Beggs, who labored with Coppola within the 1979 movie “Apocalypse Now,” described Coppola’s imaginative and prescient as a “gigantic opera, proven over 4 nights in some place as shut as doable to the geographical heart of america – and folks would come from throughout, as they do to Bayreuth”

In an interview with GQ in 2022, Coppola gave extra perception, elaborating that the movie is “a love story.” He defined, “A girl is split between loyalties to 2 males. However not solely two males. Every man comes with a philosophical precept. One is her father who raised her, who taught her Latin on his lap and is dedicated to a way more classical view of society, the Marcus Aurelius type of view. The opposite one, who’s the lover, is the enemy of the daddy however is devoted to a way more progressive ‘Let’s leap into the longer term, let’s leap over all of this rubbish that has contaminated humanity for 10,000 years. Let’s discover what we actually are, which is an enlightened, pleasant, joyous species’.”

The movie options an ensemble solid that features Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Esposito, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jason Schwartzman, Grace VanderWaal, Kathryn Hunter, Talia Shire, Dustin Hoffman and D. B. Sweeney.

“Megalopolis” is scheduled to premiere on the Cannes Movie Pageant on Might 17, 2024.