Francis Ford Coppola is already planning to re-release “Megalopolis.” The auteur has famously recut a slew of his most iconic options, together with “Apocalypse Now.” Quickly, “Megalopolis” will even be revisited within the edit room, with Coppola teasing that the proudly Razzie award-winning epic will likely be “extra bizarre” with the recut.
“It was [originally] extra bizarre,” Coppola mentioned in the course of the New Jersey leg of his tour for the 2024 movie (through the World of Reel). “I personal the image, I can do something I would like with it.” The recut will embrace added deleted dream sequences that may make the movie “weirder.”
Coppola mentioned that he lower sure sequences from the ultimate movie “as a result of already individuals have been saying this movie was so bizarre.”
“Megalopolis” stars Adam Driver as architect Cesar Catilina, who strives to create a utopian metropolis whereas battling Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito). Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, and Aubrey Plaza co-star within the Cannes characteristic that Coppola self-funded for $120 million. It’ll quickly be become a graphic novel with an October 2025 launch.
Coppola is on tour with Reside Nation to display screen the characteristic throughout the U.S. The tour is titled “An Night With Francis Ford Coppola and ‘Megalopolis,’” and the director goes to 6 totally different cities. After the characteristic, Coppola will take part in an interactive dialogue with the viewers in regards to the theme of “Find out how to Change Our Future.”
“Megalopolis” has not but been made obtainable on any streaming platforms. The tour would be the first time the movie is introduced again to the general public. “That is the way in which ‘Megalopolis’ was meant to be seen, in a big venue, with a crowd and adopted by intense interactive discussions in regards to the future,” Coppola mentioned in a press release from THR.
The making of “Megalopolis” was captured in documentary “Megadoc,” which can debut at Venice 2025. Mike Figgis directs the documentary which is billed as a critical look into the controversial and convoluted manufacturing of Coppola’s “Megalopolis.”
Figgis mentioned in a press assertion, “Francis gave me entry to every little thing, together with the wonderful archive materials he’s collected of the numerous readings of the script because it went from one model to a different. I used to be kind of free to go the place I needed. The solid have been open in regards to the working state of affairs and the way they have been coping with the idiosyncrasies of Francis and his very particular person working strategies. What a privilege to be a witness to such a second in movie historical past.”
In line with Coppola, “Megadoc” will showcase the numerous variations of the reality about what it actually was wish to movie “Megalopolis” in Georgia. “The good filmmaker Mike Figgis shot the making of ‘Megalopolis’ as he noticed it,” Coppola mentioned. “Curiously, there are various interpretations of what actually occurred and it’s all within the documentary though the documentary doesn’t at all times say which is what. It’s for the viewer to behold and interpret.”