Tema: Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, 2024)

Según el artículo James Caan también volverá a trabajar con Coppola. .

Cito extractos del artículo que enlaza Tripley.

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“It has become like a religious war, in that it’s not about anything logical,” Coppola told Deadline. “I think the big news here is that I am still the same as I was 20 years ago or 40 years ago. I’m still willing to do the dream picture, even if I have to put up my own money, and I am capable of putting up $100 million if I have to here. I don’t want to, but I will do it if I have to.

“I’m committed to making this movie, I’d like to make it in the fall of 2022,” Coppola revealed. “I don’t have all my cast approved, but I have enough of them to have confidence that it is going to be a very exciting cast. The picture’s going to cost between $100 million and $120 million. Needless to say, I hope it’s closer to $100 million. I’m prepared to match some outside financing, almost dollar for dollar. In other words, I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is. What’s interesting about that is, there was a documentary about my dream studio, when I owned Zoetrope Studios and I was unafraid to risk everything I had in order to make my dream come true. Well, I really haven’t changed my personality, at all.”



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While Coppola set his script in a contemporary city and explores timely themes, the sprawling tale has its origins in ancient Rome.

“The concept of the film is a Roman epic, in the traditional Cecile B. DeMille or Ben-Hur way, but told as a modern counterpart focusing on America,” he said. “It’s based on The Catiline Conspiracy, which comes to us from ancient Rome. This was a famous duel between a patrician, Catiline, and that part will be played by Oscar Isaac, and the famous Cicero, who will be Forest Whitaker. He is now the beleaguered mayor of New York, during a financial crisis, close to the one that Mayor Dinkins had. This story takes place in a new Rome, a Roman epic sent in modern times. The time set is not a specific year in modern New York, it’s an impression of modern New York, which I call New Rome.”

Coppola realizes these serious themes leave him swimming against the tide in an industry fixated with franchises, high concepts and familiar formulas. But he’s been a maverick his whole life and would like to stake himself this one more time, hoping to prevail again.

Del 18 de este mes:


Francis Ford Coppola to Spend His Own $120 Million on New Film: I Don’t Care ‘About the Financial Impact’



Francis Ford Coppola is putting down $120 million of his own money to make his long-in-the-works passion project “Megalopolis.” Coppola wrote “Megalopolis” in the early 1980s and has been reportedly in talks with Oscar Isaac, Forest Whitaker and Cate Blanchett to finally get the film off the ground. The issue Coppola has faced is that the movie is such an ambitious and expensive original idea that no major studio would ever touch it.

Speaking to GQ magazine, Coppola said that major Hollywood executives reacted to his “Megalopolis” pitch the “same way they did when I had won five Oscars and was the hottest film director in town and walked in with ‘Apocalypse Now’ and said, ‘I’d like to make this next.’ I own ‘Apocalypse Now.’ Do you know why I own ‘Apocalypse Now?’ Because no one else wanted it.”

Coppola added, “So imagine, if that was the case when I was 33 or whatever the age and I had won every award and had broken every record and still absolutely no one wanted to join me, [then how do you think they’re reacting now?] I know that ‘Megalopolis,’ the more personal I make it, and the more like a dream in me that I do it, the harder it will be to finance.”

The plot of “Megalopolis” remains something of a mystery. Coppola has said in the past that it’s to be made in the tradition of a Roman epic but set in a utopian version of New York City called New Rome. GQ described the project as “a love story that is also a philosophical investigation of the nature of man.” To fund the project, Coppola is putting up his own $120 million and “sold a significant piece of his wine empire so that he could use a percentage of the sale as collateral for the line of credit to finally make the film.”

“Well, if I were Disney, or if I were Paramount, or if I were Netflix,” Coppola said, “and I had to raise $120 million, and I had to start saying yes and paying people, how would I do it? They all do it one way. You have a line of credit, okay? I have a line of credit.”

The $120 million figure is a big one, but Coppola said, “It’s not as if $120 million is the extent of what I have. I have bequeathed much to all my children. And then they themselves, the greatest thing I bequeathed to my children is their know-how and their talent. [My kids are] not going to have a problem. They’re all very capable. And they have Inglenook [the family winery], where we are. There’s no debt on this place. None.”

When GQ asked if self-funding “Megalopolis” could mirror his experience on “One From the Heart,” a massive flop that Coppola spent years paying back the bank for, the director responded, “I couldn’t care less about the financial impact whatsoever. It means nothing to me.”

“Megalopolis” remains in development for now. Coppola has not yet announced a production start date.

Lucas, utiliza el cheque de los esclavistas blancos para producirle el capricho al compadre, hombre.
Dale buen uso a ese dinero sucio.

Evidentemente: "Se ha convertido en una guerra religiosa, en el sentido de que no se trata de nada lógico".

Yo creo que, por quién ha sido, es y será, merece que alguien se lo financie.

Ya no es que no pueda imaginar el dinero que ha hecho ganar a otras personas, es por su importancia, legado al cine y lo que ha hecho vivir y sentir a los espectadores de cine.

Si yo fuera Forbes se la financiaba.

Saludos.

When GQ asked if self-funding “Megalopolis” could mirror his experience on “One From the Heart,” a massive flop that Coppola spent years paying back the bank for, the director responded, “I couldn’t care less about the financial impact whatsoever. It means nothing to me.”

Esto es tremendo, le da igual todo. Quiere hacerla por el mismo, por una necesidad creativa.


And so this is Coppola's plan. He is going to take $120 million of his own fortune, at 82 years of age, and make the damn movie himself.

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When GQ asked if self-funding “Megalopolis” could mirror his experience on “One From the Heart,” a massive flop that Coppola spent years paying back the bank for, the director responded, “I couldn’t care less about the financial impact whatsoever. It means nothing to me.”

Esto es tremendo, le da igual todo. Quiere hacerla por el mismo, por una necesidad creativa.


And so this is Coppola's plan. He is going to take $120 million of his own fortune, at 82 years of age, and make the damn movie himself.

Tiene 82 años, por lo que no le quedará mucho de vida, seamos realistas. Tiene además una empresa de vino que por lo visto es bastante exitosa y su hija no necesita dinero porque ella ya es una eficiente directora. Entiendo que quiera echar la casa por la ventana. Me parece perfecto.

Ya re-hipotecó su casa en su día para acabar Apocalypse Now.

Iniciado por BruceTimm

Lucas, utiliza el cheque de los esclavistas blancos para producirle el capricho al compadre, hombre.
Dale buen uso a ese dinero sucio.

Ostras, si. Además no sería la primera vez que lo hace.

Oscar Isaac se cae

Oscar Isaac Reportedly Passes On Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’

https://theplaylist.net/oscar-isaac-...olis-20220322/

Iniciado por Fincher

Oscar Isaac se cae

Oscar Isaac Reportedly Passes On Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’

https://theplaylist.net/oscar-isaac-...olis-20220322/

Adam Driver, sera su sustituto

y protagonista de la peli

tambien se añade Laurence Fishburne y la actriz Nathalie Emmanuel (se cae Zendaya?)

y se confirma a Jon voight y Forrest Whitaker




Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight and Laurence Fishburne

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...is-1235145407/

Puede que Shia LaBeouf sea el prota:

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/en...exclusive.html

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Lucas, utiliza el cheque de los esclavistas blancos para producirle el capricho al compadre, hombre.
Dale buen uso a ese dinero sucio.