{"id":14414,"date":"2023-01-10T17:37:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T22:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414"},"modified":"2023-01-10T17:37:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T22:37:54","slug":"coppola-shoots-down-megalopolis-in-peril-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414","title":{"rendered":"Coppola Shoots Down \u201cMegalopolis\u201d in Peril Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Is Megalopolis<\/strong> <\/em>fizzling into a Megaflopolis?<\/p>\r\n

That\u2019s the buzz out of Hollywood around Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s titanic new project, a science-fiction epic that seems ready to crash and burn like a flying zeppelin. According to Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, the film is halfway shot in Atlanta\u2014the city that General Sherman once torched\u2014it\u2019s already lost key members of its creative cadre, including its production designer, its supervising art director, and its entire visual effects team.<\/p>\r\n

The 83-year-old director is no stranger to apocalypses, of course, but industry sources are saying the film has \u201cdescended into chaos,\u201d says the Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. Megalopolis\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>has been on Coppola\u2019s bucket list for decades, but observers fear the bucket will be kicked before its release.<\/p>\r\n

Coppola announced in 2021 that he was financing the $120 million project on his own, bolstered by a large chunk of money he made when he sold off his Northern California wineries. Costs are mounting, though, and the word from the grapevine is that the vintage director has simply popped the wrong cork.<\/p>\r\n

Not that Coppola\u2019s palate was limited: he\u2019d assembled a bouquet of stars for Megalopolis<\/strong><\/em>, including such names as Dustin Hoffman, Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Forest Whitaker, Laurence Fishburne, Jon Voight, Talia Shire, Shia LaBeouf, and Jason Schwartzman. The film concerns a visionary architect who seeks to rebuild New York City as a post-apocalyptic paradise. But special effects do not come cheap, hence the worries that the movie will never see the light of a darkened movie house.\u00a0 It\u2019s been reported that Coppola fired Mark Russell and the entire visual-effects team in early December, reminiscent of how he\u2019d also fired a similar team working on his Decade<\/strong> <\/em>flick some three decades ago.\u00a0Maybe Coppola needs to conjure up a fairy godfather to set things right?<\/p>\r\n

But Today, according to both Coppola and star Adam Driver, there is no chaos. Speaking with Deadline<\/a>, Coppola acknowledged that there has been some turnover which has all been to do with economics, and none of it has caused any significant disruption:<\/p>\r\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never worked on a film where I was so happy with the cast. I am so happy with the look and that we are so on schedule. These reports never say who these sources are. To them, I say, ha, ha, just wait and see.<\/p>\r\n

Because this is a beautiful film and primarily so because the cast is so great. I\u2019ve never enjoyed working with a cast who are so hardworking and so willing to go search for the unconventional, to come upon hidden solutions.<\/p>\r\n

It is a thrill to work with these actors, and the photography is everything I could hope for. The dailies are great. So if we\u2019re on schedule, and I love the actors, and the look is great, I don\u2019t know what anyone\u2019s talking about here.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Forest Whitaker, Laurence Fishburne, Jon Voight, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman and Dustin Hoffman star and Driver also spoke about the rumors:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019d like to briefly respond to The Hollywood Reporter article published Monday, January 9th. All good here! Not sure what set you\u2019re talking about! I don\u2019t recognize that one! I\u2019ve been on sets that were chaotic, and this one is far from it.<\/p>\r\n

The environment that\u2019s being created by Francis is one of focus and inspiration. As of now, we\u2019re on schedule, making our days, and honestly, it\u2019s been one of the best shooting experiences I\u2019ve had.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Driver acknowledges that the report\u2019s original claims of the art department resigning and the VFX department being let go are true, but adds it\u2019s part of the process and \u201cthis production is not out of pocket in comparison to other productions\u201d. He adds that :<\/p>\r\n

\u201cNo one signed up for this movie expecting the process to be conventional. We were expecting the opposite in the pursuit of making something unique. The only madness I\u2019ve observed is that more productions aren\u2019t allowed to be as creatively wild and experimentally focused, precisely because someone else is paying for it. It\u2019s an effort and risk by Francis that I feel should be applauded, not publicly mischaracterized as troubled.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Of course, Coppola has famously handled some of the most notoriously tough film productions in history like “Godfather<\/strong>” and “Apocalypse Now<\/strong>” and managed to pull the film\u2019s together just fine at the end, so it seemed like business as usual.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Check out more of Edward’s articles<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

 <\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is Megalopolis fizzling into a Megaflopolis? That\u2019s the buzz out of Hollywood around Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s titanic new project, a science-fiction epic that seems ready to crash and burn like a flying zeppelin. According to Hollywood Reporter, the film is halfway shot in Atlanta\u2014the city that General Sherman once torched\u2014it\u2019s already lost key members of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10407,13533,13529,13532,13530,13531,3786],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCoppola Shoots Down \u201cMegalopolis\u201d in Peril Report | Cinema Daily US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coppola Shoots Down \u201cMegalopolis\u201d in Peril Report | Cinema Daily US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Is Megalopolis fizzling into a Megaflopolis? That\u2019s the buzz out of Hollywood around Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s titanic new project, a science-fiction epic that seems ready to crash and burn like a flying zeppelin. According to Hollywood Reporter, the film is halfway shot in Atlanta\u2014the city that General Sherman once torched\u2014it\u2019s already lost key members of...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Cinema Daily US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-10T22:37:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Francis.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"824\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1212\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Edward Moran\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Edward Moran\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414\",\"name\":\"Coppola Shoots Down \u201cMegalopolis\u201d in Peril Report | Cinema Daily US\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Francis.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-10T22:37:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-10T22:37:54+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8bf0a19223aa026749c276918426a5bc\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Francis.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Francis.jpg\",\"width\":824,\"height\":1212},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Coppola Shoots Down \u201cMegalopolis\u201d in Peril Report\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/\",\"name\":\"Cinema Daily US\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8bf0a19223aa026749c276918426a5bc\",\"name\":\"Edward Moran\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Edward-Moran-150x150.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Edward-Moran-150x150.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Edward Moran\"},\"description\":\"Edward Moran began his journalistic career many decades ago as a theater and cinema reviewer for Show Business and the New York Theater Review. More recently he contributed film reviews to hosokinema.com and Movie Sleuth. His writings have appeared in publications as diverse as the Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, the Paris Review, and the Massachusetts Review. Moran also edited a memoir by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Christine Choy. He served as literary advisor to her film Hyam Plutzik: American Poet, which was the keynote film in the American Perspectives series at the 2007 Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.cinemadailyus.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?author=3\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Coppola Shoots Down \u201cMegalopolis\u201d in Peril Report | Cinema Daily US","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Coppola Shoots Down \u201cMegalopolis\u201d in Peril Report | Cinema Daily US","og_description":"Is Megalopolis fizzling into a Megaflopolis? That\u2019s the buzz out of Hollywood around Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s titanic new project, a science-fiction epic that seems ready to crash and burn like a flying zeppelin. According to Hollywood Reporter, the film is halfway shot in Atlanta\u2014the city that General Sherman once torched\u2014it\u2019s already lost key members of...","og_url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414","og_site_name":"Cinema Daily US","article_published_time":"2023-01-10T22:37:54+00:00","og_image":[{"width":824,"height":1212,"url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Francis.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Edward Moran","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Edward Moran","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414","url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414","name":"Coppola Shoots Down \u201cMegalopolis\u201d in Peril Report | Cinema Daily US","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Francis.jpg","datePublished":"2023-01-10T22:37:54+00:00","dateModified":"2023-01-10T22:37:54+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8bf0a19223aa026749c276918426a5bc"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Francis.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Francis.jpg","width":824,"height":1212},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14414#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Coppola Shoots Down \u201cMegalopolis\u201d in Peril Report"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/","name":"Cinema Daily US","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8bf0a19223aa026749c276918426a5bc","name":"Edward Moran","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Edward-Moran-150x150.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Edward-Moran-150x150.jpg","caption":"Edward Moran"},"description":"Edward Moran began his journalistic career many decades ago as a theater and cinema reviewer for Show Business and the New York Theater Review. More recently he contributed film reviews to hosokinema.com and Movie Sleuth. His writings have appeared in publications as diverse as the Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, the Paris Review, and the Massachusetts Review. Moran also edited a memoir by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Christine Choy. He served as literary advisor to her film Hyam Plutzik: American Poet, which was the keynote film in the American Perspectives series at the 2007 Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.cinemadailyus.com"],"url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?author=3"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}