Megalopolis

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Our Review

The long-awaited project of the master of American cinema turned out to be a complete failure. At the 77th Cannes Film Festival, the long-suffering, highly anticipated, and very expensive project "Megalopolis" by Francis Ford Coppola premiered. The very title speaks of its scale and grandeur, and nothing less was expected from the master of American cinema. However, the film was loudly booed by the press after the screening. Let's explore what went wrong with this film. The plot revolves around the fantastically brilliant architect Caesar Catalina, who lives by his ideas…

Interesting facts

Francis Ford Coppola penned the screenplay in the early 1980s, but the film was largely shelved partly because of his financial difficulties. Pre-production finally got under way in 2001 after 30 hours of second-unit footage had been filmed and a table read was held with Paul Newman, Uma Thurman, Robert De Niro, James Gandolfini, Nicolas Cage, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Edie Falco and Kevin Spacey, but the project was dropped after the September 11 attacks because a scene on page 166 appeared to 'predict' the events. Coppola fully abandoned the endeavour in 2007 and did not return to its development until 2019.

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