Francis Ford Coppola has run out of vineyards to promote. The director of The Godfather, The Dialog, and extra iconic movies is difficult at work on his subsequent film, however he just lately informed Rick Rubin on his Tetragammaton podcast that it’s going to have a smaller funds than his earlier movie, Megalopolis, as a result of “I don’t have any cash.”
Coppola described his subsequent undertaking, an adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel Glimpses of the Moon, as a “’30s-style unusual musical” when interviewed by the Washington Submit final December. Now, he’s dealing with the funds limitations from Megalopolis’s failure to recoup the $120 million he invested in it. Mentioned Coppola on the podcast:
“It’s as if Noel Coward tailored an Edith Wharton novel in England which is why I’m right here within the UK. I’m truly in pre manufacturing. I don’t have any cash as a result of I invested all the cash, that I borrowed, to make Megalopolis. It’s principally gone. I feel it’ll come again over 15 or 20 years, however I don’t have it now. So I don’t have any cash. I’ve to do that movie very low cost, which is what I’m doing.”
Megalopolis was a decades-long ardour undertaking for Coppola, which premiered on the 2024 Cannes Movie Competition to baffled evaluations. Regardless of a few of its bolder inventive selections, the film did not catch on with mainstream audiences on the field workplace. Megalopolis additionally acquired six Razzie nominations, profitable for Worst Director and Worst Supporting Actor — although Coppola was thrilled about that.