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‘MegaFLOPolis’?

Wednesday, 10 April 2024, 16:50 BFH Uncategorized 15

Francis Ford Coppola has been working on a film, Megalopolis, for 40 years. It’d be a shame if it were a flop.

wiki- An accident destroys a New York City-like metropolis already in decay. An architectural idealist, Caesar, aims to rebuild the city as a utopia, while the mayor, Frank Cicero, thinks otherwise, partly because of corruption and power brokering. Meanwhile, Frank’s daughter, Julia, tired of the attention and power she was born with because of him, looks for meaning in her life.

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Francis Ford Coppola wrote the script in the early 1980s, but the film was kept on the back-burner partially due to his financial debts. Pre-production finally began in 2001 after filming 30 hours of second unit footage and holding table read with Paul Newman, Uma Thurman, Robert De Niro, James Gandolfini, Nicolas Cage, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Edie Falco, and Kevin Spacey. However, the project was scrapped after the September 11 attacks, since a scene from the script (page 166) “predicted” the attacks. Coppola fully abandoned the project in 2007, and didn’t begin developing it again until 2019.

Francis Ford Coppola financed the entire $120 million film out of his own pocket. He had done the same with Apocalypse Now (1979) and One from the Heart (1981), and the failure of the latter made him declare bankruptcy. All his subsequent films up to The Rainmaker (1997) were made to pay off his debts.

Laurence Fishburne said Francis Ford Coppola were discussing this film during production on Apocalypse Now (1979).

The script has been compared to Fritz Lang‘s classic film Metropolis (1927) and Ayn Rand‘s novel “The Fountainhead.”

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After a March 28 screening for an audience that included many Hollywood execs, sources told the Hollywood Reporter that Coppola might struggle to find a distribution partner, especially since he envisions a global marketing budget of up to $100 million. Insiders called it too niche and experimental. “There is just no way to position this movie,” one distributor reportedly said.

15 Comments on ‘MegaFLOPolis’?

  2. Can’t afford to go to a movie.
    Just brought 70 bucks worth of groceries home on my bicycle.
    Four years ago I would have had to take my truck if I bought 70 bucks in groceries.

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  3. ^^^^^ Gas is back up to 5 bucks a gallon where I live, and connecting the dots leads us right to that fraud in the WH.

    The Godfather is on TCM tonight. One of my guilty pleasures from FFC is The Black Stallion.

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  4. “There is just no way to position this movie,” one distributor reportedly said.

    The best position would be in a Gucci box on the front seat of an unlocked Escalade parked in downtown San Francisco.

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  7. Rich Taylor, The Black Stallion is one of my favorite movies also. Mickey Rooney did a very good job of playing the old horse trainer in that movie. The cinematography in The Black Stallion is phenomenal and the horse racing scenes are one of the best in a horse racing movie ever.

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  10. Different Tim – $70 bucks. That’s about two plastic bags worth where I live.

    We use to fill a large paper sack (with handles!) for $20 bucks.

    Hang in there – soon you may be able to spend your Soc. Sec. check on food and booze, like I do!

    Fuck the fucking fuckers.

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  12. If it came out on DVD/BluRay, in English, I’d buy a copy just for giggles and grins.
    If it came out at the cinema…..there’s a lot of “ifs” in there that would determine if I went to see it or not.

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