Francis Ford Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS is back on

[aiman04]

Strange I've never heard of this. Is it a sci-fi? Has he ever done that before?

[agenda]

So, is the 'Final Cut' going to be longer or shorter than Redux?

[BladeRunner2007]

Originally Posted by agenda

So, is the 'Final Cut' going to be longer or shorter than Redux?

Shorter.

[Cremildo]

Shia LaBeouf in contention for the lead role.

DEADLINE: Few unmade movies have intrigued with possibilities than Megalopolis. And now you are ready to come back and make your first big-scale film in decades…

COPPOLA: At this age, I have to tell you, I am more enthusiastic and excited about the cinema and what it means and what it can be and even with all of the new digital aspects of it, which I think are being misused. As for Megalopolis… Well, it looks good. I mean, we made the offer now to several actors. I can’t say they’ve accepted, but they were very enthusiastic. One of them is Jude Law and another Shia LaBeouf. I may shortly have my lead actress. The whole world of casting is so different today—when you invite an actor to read a script, right away they want an offer to go with it, when sometimes you just want to get together with them and see if they’re the right choice. Right now I have several enthusiastic people.

I don’t have any official backers. I have a sort of philosophy of how to do it, and it’s not dissimilar to how I did Apocalypse Now, where I line up a whole bunch of territories and I put it together with the bank. In one case, one of these technology companies… I can’t say which one. But as you know, in the next five years the whole film industry is going to be owned by Apple, Facebook, Amazon. One of those newly emerged media giants is intrigued by the idea.

I am so used to living with unsure situations that I don’t know that I’ll ever in my lifetime have a sure situation. Studios pretty much don’t do these movies any more. Even when they do, they don’t finance them. I’ll use the complicated formula that I used for Apocalypse, which I turned over to my good friend George Lucas and he then used for Star Wars.

Originally Posted by Francis Ford Coppola

I looked at some of the tests and some of the readings of actors for Megalopolis and I said that same fatal thing; it wasn’t as bad as I thought. There was something here. So I began to become excited about it again. I think I have a very viable script but I also had all the second unit shot already, and I began to have some interest from some actors. It’s a big, ambitious project. It has a big cast.

I think if the film could be fortunate enough to be taken by the industry not so much as, “Here’s another wacky Coppola thing, he’ll never do it,” or, “Where is he going to get the money?” But instead, “This is exciting. We want him to do this.” There are 12 big parts and now it becomes about, how do you get all these actors working together, and pay them?

[The Debts]

It's been a looooooooooooong time since Coppola has had a hit or something even remotely well received. He better know what he's doing on this because it go either way.

[Hoke Moseley]

Originally Posted by The Debts

It's been a looooooooooooong time since Coppola has had a hit or something even remotely well received. He better know what he's doing on this because it go either way.

yawn

[Gacivory]

Not too big on LaBeouf. But I love Coppola and glad to hear he is back!

[Kylo Ren]

Just here to say that The Cotton Club needs to finally get a Blu-ray release!

[levcore]

Is a studio really going to greenlight a big movie with Shia in the lead role these days?

[captveg]

Originally Posted by The Debts

It's been a looooooooooooong time since Coppola has had a hit or something even remotely well received. He better know what he's doing on this because it go either way.

Coppola is also well past the point of really caring about box office.

[levcore]

Studios aren't though.

[Cremildo]

CAA Signs Francis Ford Coppola; Mission Is To Get Epic ‘Megalopolis’ Made

The agency will help Coppola mount his epic project, Megalopolis, the drama set in New York about a master architect and city design czar’s grand vision to create a utopian city of the future. Coppola has been ruminating on this project for nearly two decades, and even shot much of the second unit footage of architecture and street sounds and scenes, just before the destruction of 9/11 brought the project to a halt.

[Cremildo]

An update from December:

Originally Posted by FFC

By the way, I had the great privilege of meeting Cuomo’s father, Mario Cuomo. What a wonderful man. I was talking to him because I was writing this utopian film [Editor's note: Over three decades in the making, Coppola wrote Megalopolis in the early 1980s. The production has faced delays due to Coppola’s obligations to The Godfather trilogy, the 9/11 attacks and the overall grand scale of the project.] that I’m still trying to do.

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

Shia LaBeouf in contention for the lead role.

I’m guessing this is no longer the case.

[slumcat]

Yeah this will never be made.

[Hoke Moseley]

That's hardly an update.