Megalopolis l Francis Ford Coppola's future magnum opus l CINEMA HAS BEEN SAVED

[MightyDargon]

Clearly Megalopolis is inferior to THE GREATEST SUPERHERO MOVIE SINCE THE DARK KNIGHT that Zaslav loved so much.

[AniNate]

That statement sounds like a troll

[MightyDargon]

The real trolls are the studio heads claiming this is somehow irredeemably bad while putting out loads of...dubious movies.

[interiorgatordecorator]

>Cesar (Adam Driver), in turn, would be a master builder, a great architect, designer, and scientist combining elements of Robert Moses, as portrayed in the brilliant biography The Power Broker

 

lol, I love it

Edited April 30 by interiorgatordecorator

[cinema pal]

Lol, let's pretend it's not new incarnation of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead ))

[ThomasNicole]

10 minutes ago, cinema pal said:

Lol, let's pretend it's not new incarnation of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead ))

It’s not like he’s promising a completely new and never seen before story by doing a movie openly inspired by the catiline conspiracy lol
 

I mean, he quoted like 20 names of people that inspired him for this movie and said it contains everything he learned in his lifetime about these themes.
 

He’s just doing his version rethink to modern world, of course it’s a new incarnation of many things.

[AniNate]

I feel like it needs "A fitting end, while also setting up what's next" as a final sentence

[cinema pal]

6 minutes ago, ThomasNicole said:

I mean, he quoted like 20 names of people that inspired him for this movie and said it contains everything he learned in his lifetime about these themes.

Sure, but he won't name Ayn, cuz he doesn't need more  scrutiny, hehe

[SpiderByte]

8 hours ago, cinema pal said:

Did they use Volume after all or did they drop it? Heard there were problems

Yeah when I saw the image I thought it looks like the Volume considering the budget

[cinema pal]

6 minutes ago, SpiderByte said:

Yeah when I saw the image I thought it looks like the Volume considering the budget

wiki says they decided  to use greenscreen after some shooting occurred, but it's unclear at what point change happened

Edited April 30 by cinema pal

[Napoleon]

4 hours ago, interiorgatordecorator said:

In his statement to VF, Coppola includes a long list of names that influenced the creation of “Megalopolis”: “I wouldn’t have been able to make it without standing as I do on the shoulders of G.B. Shaw, Voltaire, Rousseau, Bentham, Mill, Dickens, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Fournier, Morris, Carlyle, Ruskin, Butler, and Wells all rolled into one; with Euripides, Thomas More, Moliere, Pirandello, Shakespeare, Beaumarchais, Swift, Kubrick, Murnau, Goethe, Plato, Aeschylus, Spinoza, Durrell, Ibsen, Abel Gance, Fellini, Visconti, Bergman, Bergson, Hesse, Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Cao Xueqin, Mizoguchi, Tolstoy, McCullough, Moses, and the prophets all thrown in.” 

 

Will admit to letting myself get excited

Taylor Swift?

[dudalb]

3 hours ago, cinema pal said:

Lol, let's pretend it's not new incarnation of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead ))

Given Coppola's politics, I really doubt that.

And it's not like every movie about an artist struggling to bring about his creation is a theft from "THe Fountainhead",

 

 

Edited April 30 by dudalb

[cinema pal]

6 hours ago, dudalb said:

Given Coppola's politics, I really doubt that.

And it's not like every movie about an artist struggling to bring about his creation is a theft from "THe Fountainhead",

 

 

Ehm, as if politics of Zack Snyder (who wanted to make a new adaptation of FH) allign perfectly with Rand?)) Not sure. 

 

And how about not "any movie about an artist", but specifically about an struggling architect? How many can you name?

[interiorgatordecorator]

 

thats at least an hour shorter than I expected

hope its 2:18 min long because coppola wanted it to be 2:18 min long and not an example of why self-funding 9 digit productions is a bad idea 

[AniNate]

I feel like people would be saying that even if it was 3 hours long

[Jake Gittes]

That's only nine minutes shorter than the original cut of Apocalypse Now. 

[SpiderByte]

I think distribution wise the 100 mil promotion thing is gonna be a sticking point. Most likely candidate is probably Apple still but this does sound like a steep sell

[Firepower]

 

King graced us with the clip from the best movie ever.

Edited May 4 by Firepower

[TMP]

Some shades of MiB3 ngl, but weird green screen aside i’m fucking with it

[SpiderByte]

I can kinda see where distributors are coming from in not really knowing how to sell this premise