Megalopolis-a film by Francis Ford Coppola

[Gary]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1786749543226192199

This one's a pretty big deal. He's been trying to get this one made for years (it was originally going to be made in the early 00s, but 9/11 happened and a movie very much about New York was deemed hard to make) and it's apparently a huge swing that studios seem a bit afraid to release (where's someone like Neon when you need them?) Needless to say, I'm interested.

 

[Valeyard]

Yeah the reluctance to release it makes me super interested. Dude is due for a passion project.

 

[Gary]

Yeah the reluctance to release it makes me super interested. Dude is due for a passion project.

It's been his passion project since the 90s. I'm actually surprised (but glad) he finally got it made.

 

[King Kamala]

This is the most hyped a Francis Ford Coppola movie has been since Bram Stoker's Dracula. I'm really pulling for this comeback.

 

[Valeyard]

I don't know what expectations I have. As I understand it the big reluctance from studios currently was about things like marketing and accessibility. I just don't want it to be his Heaven's Gate.

 

[strummer]

Coppola's longtime producing partner Fred Roos worked on the film. He'll be 90 in a few weeks

Coppola sold his winery to finance the film.

Honestly psyched for this. Hope it doesn't turn into a punchline. Coppola deserves at least one last hit

 

[Gary]

also, this

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1790381951670534385

 

[King Kamala]

Francis Ford Coppola Accused of ‘Old-School’ On-Set Behavior

During the 40-year process to make his futuristic fable, Megalopolis.

www.vulture.com

Damn millennials and Gen Zers can’t understand a genius at work, @Incandenza .

 

[Valeyard]

I'd side with Coppola on general principle.

 

[909]

Those stories will tank this film.

 

[909]

Several sources also felt that Coppola could be "old-school" in his behavior around women. He allegedly pulled women to sit on his lap, for example. And during one bacchanalian nightclub scene being shot for the film, witnesses say, Coppola came on to the set and tried to kiss some of the topless and scantily clad female extras. He apparently claimed he was "trying to get them in the mood."

 

[Incandenza]

Article reads like the sort of thing that comes out in industry rags whenever someone spends a lot of money on something that...might be art. Huge grain of salt with everything therein.

 

[King Kamala]

Timing does feel awfully convenient that this article dropped at almost the exact same time as the trailer and took any wind out of the sails for any excitement anyone on the fence about seeing the movie might have had for now.

 

[Valeyard]

If it weren't for this already being a project no one saw money in by the kinds of people who pay to get articles in papers like that, I'd be far more concerned.

 

[Gary]

Premiered at Cannes, and the general reaction seems mixed, which I expected. The fact it's so divisive certainly has me intrigued (though I've seen comparisons to "Southland Tales", and...I appreciate the swings that movie takes, but I feel like one of the few people left who will tell you it isn't a very good movie.)

 

[Valeyard]

That's good though because it means it will at least certainly be fascinating bad.