Adam Driver is an architect who can management time within the first-look clip for Francis Ford Coppola‘s upcoming, self-funded movie, Megalopolis.
Within the more-than-two-minute video, Driver’s Cesar Catilina makes his approach onto the sting of a skyscraper, seemingly contemplating leaping. As he’s about to totally step off the constructing, he shouts “Time cease” and the vehicles under him pause at his command, and he leans again onto steady footing.
The movie, which can premiere on the Cannes Movie Competition on Could 17, is a Roman Epic set in an imagined Trendy America, in line with its description.
“The Metropolis of New Rome should change, inflicting battle between Cesar Catilina, a genius artist who seeks to leap right into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), who stays dedicated to a regressive establishment, perpetuating greed, particular pursuits and partisan warfare,” the logline reads. “Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero (Nathalie Emmanuel), the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties, forcing her to find what she actually believes humanity deserves.”
Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Jason Schwartzman, Laurence Fishburne, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman, James Remar, D.B. Sweeney and Dustin Hoffman spherical out the forged of the director’s self-funded movie.
Coppola first started writing Megalopolis in 1983, and the movie reportedly price $120 million to make, which was funded partly by the sale of a good portion of the director’s wine empire. He hosted a screening of the mission on the finish of March for potential patrons, with Common’s Donna Langley, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos and Sony’s Tom Rothman all attending.
Nevertheless, over a month later, the movie continues to be searching for distribution, as a number of of the screening’s attendees instructed The Hollywood Reporter that Megalopolis will face an uphill battle. One distributor mentioned, “There may be simply no option to place this film,” whereas one other famous that whereas “everyone seems to be rooting” for the director, “there’s there’s the enterprise facet of issues.”
One studio head even mentioned, “It’s so not good, and it was so unhappy watching it. Anyone who places P&A [prints and advertising] behind it, you’re going to lose cash.”
Nevertheless, not all responses to Megalopolis have been adverse. A specialty label founder shared, “I preferred it enormously,” including it’s a “very large movie” that “has an actual life. … How do you outline business? You have a look at a film like Blade Runner, and it grew to become a lot extra business than on opening weekend.”