After receiving Academy Awards and changing into an icon of Hollywood, Francis Ford Coppola simply needs to have “enjoyable.” The auteur’s model of taking part in round? Directing a self-funded $120 million epic.
The making of Coppola’s controversial “Megalopolis” is captured in documentary “Megadoc” by filmmaker Mike Figgis (Figgis beforehand helmed the Oscar-nominated “Leaving Las Vegas” and is understood for guiding episodes of “The Sopranos” and “The Affair.”) “Megadoc” is billed as an “unfiltered” look into Coppola’s “Megalopolis” and his inventive course of as a complete. The official synopsis for “Megadoc” reads: “A uncooked, fly-on-the-wall documentary about Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-long journey in creating his self-financed ardour undertaking, ‘Megalopolis.’ The daring and unrelenting epic returns in Mike Figgis’ portrait of Coppola’s inventive course of – weaving collectively archival materials, unfiltered forged interviews, and a close-up view of how the legendary filmmaker drew from Roman historical past, political allegory, and his personal singular imaginative and prescient to form the world of ‘Megalopolis.’ This isn’t a file of a manufacturing on the brink, it’s a private memoir unfolding in actual time.”
“Megadoc” will debut at Venice 2025. “Megalopolis” actors Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Nathalie Emmanuel, Dustin Hoffman, Giancarlo Esposito, Chloe Fineman, Shia LaBeouf, Laurence Fishburne, Jon Voight, and Talia Shire seem within the documentary, in addition to Coppola collaborator Robert De Niro.
“Megadoc” is produced by Tara Li-An and James Mockoski.
Coppola beforehand stated in a press assertion that “Megadoc” showcases a wide range of views 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 stated. “Apparently, there are numerous 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.”
Figgis added that Coppola gave him “entry to all the pieces, together with the superb 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 wished. The forged have been open concerning 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.”
Utopia will launch “Megadoc” in September. Take a look at the teaser under.