Megalopolis
Short description
Megalopolis is set in New Rome, a version of New York imagined through the lens of Roman history. At its centre is Cesar Catilina, an architect and artist who can stop time and who wants to push the city toward a utopian future built with a material of his own invention. He is opposed by Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who is committed to a regressive status quo and the entrenched interests that sustain it. Caught between the two men is the mayor's daughter Julia, a socialite whose love for Cesar pulls against her loyalty to her father and forces her to weigh what she believes humanity deserves.
Francis Ford Coppola wrote, directed and produced the film, the twenty-sixth directed feature of his career in chronological order, following The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone in 2020. Adam Driver plays Cesar Catilina, with Giancarlo Esposito as Mayor Cicero and Nathalie Emmanuel as Julia Cicero. Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf and Jon Voight appear among the principal cast, and the production credits 58 cast members and 378 crew.
The film was made for a budget of 120 million USD and returned 14 million USD worldwide. It holds an IMDb rating of 4.7 from around 42,000 votes and a TMDB rating of 5.2 from just over a thousand votes, against a critics' score of 4.8 from 303 reviews, so audiences and critics alike registered a lukewarm response.
What's left behind the scenes
- Francis Ford Coppola financed the film with his own money.
- Due to funding problems, production of the film did not begin until 2001, when some material was shot and script readings were held with Paul Newman, Uma Thurman, Robert De Niro, James Gandolfini, Nicolas Cage, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Edie Falco, and Kevin Spacey. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, the project was again put on hold due to a scene depicting similar attacks, and Coppola did not return to the film until 2019.
- The idea for the film came to Francis Ford Coppola after completing work on "Apocalypse Now," and he wrote the first draft of the script in the early 1980s.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
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