Francis Ford Coppola‘s extremely anticipated, self-funded feature Megalopolis has landed a Cannes debut. The movie will conceal in competitors at the festival on Might per chance well 17 in a gala premiere at the 77th annual festival.
The project follows the rebuilding of a metropolis after its unintended destruction, with two competing visions — one from an idealist architect (Adam Driver), the quite a lot of from its pragmatist mayor (Giancarlo Esposito) — clashing at some stage within the center of. Shia LaBeouf, Laurence Fishburne and Aubrey Plaza round out the solid.
The project, which Coppola first started writing in 1983, rate a reported $120 million to make — funded in fragment by the sale of an even portion of his wine empire. Not too long within the past, the movie had a screening for potential merchants, with Universal’s Donna Langley, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos and Sony’s Tom Rothman in attendance at Universal CityWalk. It is silent making an attempt for distribution, however the filmmaker has great his need for an Imax initiate.
Several in attendance at the Megalopolis screening described their experiences to The Hollywood Reporter, with one studio head asserting, “It’s so no longer prison, and it used to be so unhappy staring at it. Any one who puts P&A behind it, you’re going to lose money.” One other supplied: “I preferred it enormously.”
Coppola famously brought but any other of his fraught capabilities, Apocalypse Now, to the festival. It became the first quit on a long tear to acclaim.
Megalopolis joins already-launched titles bask in Kevin Costner’s Horizon, but any other self-funded chronicle, and George Miller’s Inflamed Max title Furiosa. The the leisure of the Cannes line-up will be launched on April 11.
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