‘Megalopolis‘, the last film of Francis Ford Coppola has presented its first teaser in the Cannes Film Festival. An important event in which the film will be seen for the first time on May 17, an important event in order to find a distributor for its official release sometime in 2024.
An intense week for Francis Ford Coppola, showing the first images of his long-awaited film and, also, the first teaser that lets us see a preview of what will be one of the most ambitious and special projects in his extensive and legendary filmography. A film that the director himself assures that he began writing in 1983, and that tells the story of the reconstruction of New York City after having been devastated by a cataclysm. In the teaser we can see Adam Driver at the top of the emblematic Chrysler Buildingmanaging to stop time for a moment and leaving us wanting more in one of the films that, possibly, will generate the most debate this year.
‘Megalopolis’, Francis Ford Coppola’s last great project
The legendary 85-year-old director has not had an easy time carrying out a project like ‘Megalopolis’, being rejected by industry professionals, and no distributor wanted to take charge of his new project. A Coppola who has confessed that he has had to sell part of his wine estate in order to finance a project that has a budget of around 120 million dollars.
‘Megalopolis’ is, in the words of Francis Ford Coppola, “a Roman epic set in modern America.” A futuristic New York that will place us before events that occurred in Ancient Rome, and that has a luxury cast that includes actors and actresses of the stature of Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Shia LaBeouf and Dustin Hoffman among others. .
