I have actually forecasted Megalopolis, foreseed as it is actually, are going to possess a very clear splitting aspect: the social commentariat wanting to find “another film by the director of The Godfather” as well as those that enjoy “something that looks and sounds like a Star Wars prequel.” I am actually really strongly in the second, was actually usually thrilled due to the first picture, as well as may merely be actually desired along with the time-stopping launching teaser, getting here today using Le Pacte. (As our factor Z.W. Lewis quipped to me, “What if The Fountainhead was written by someone with good politics and also it was like Spy Kids.”)
It possesses a saddening addenedum. Coppola, discussing the teaser on Instagram, took note:
Megalopolis has actually consistently been actually a movie committed to my dear partner Eleanor. I actually had actually planned to commemorate her special day all together this Might fourth. Yet unfortunately that was actually certainly not to become, therefore allow me show to everybody a present on her part.
As Coppola lately informed Narcissism Exhibition, “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.”
Likewise starring Giancarlo Esposito, Laurence Fishburne, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Schwartzman, as well as much more, listed below is actually the summary: “The destruction of a New York City-like metropolis after an accident brings clashing visions of the future. On one side is an ambitious architectural idealist Cesar (Adam Driver). On the other is his sworn enemy, city Mayor Frank Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito). The debate becomes whether to embrace the future and build a utopia with renewable materials, or take a business-as-usual rebuild strategy, replete with corruption and power brokering. In between their struggle is the mayor’s socialite daughter Julia (Nathalie Emmanuel), a restless young woman who grew up around power and is looking for meaning in her life.”
View the teaser listed below: