Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed sci-fi epic, is coming to digital platforms tomorrow. Given that the Megalopolis movie parallels the fall of the Roman Empire to the imagined fall of the U.S empire, it feels pretty darn relevant right now.
Written, directed, and paid for by Coppola—who has been trying to get this film made for over thirty years—Megalopolis is set in an alternate reality of modern-day New York City, which is dubbed “New Rome.” Adam Driver stars as Cesar Catilina, a once-great elite leader whose fallen into alcoholism and depression. The sprawling ensemble cast also includes Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman, James Remar, D. B. Sweeney, and Dustin Hoffman.
Megalopolis is a divisive film, to say the least, but there are no doubt many people who weren’t curious enough to see the
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