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“There are zero commercial prospects and good for him,” one top attendee told me this afternoon, saying it’s a bizarre mix of Ayn Rand, Metropolis, and Caligula. “It’s unflinching in how bat**** crazy it is.”
Here’s a more detailed summary from the screening, and yes, at one point the movie “came alive” with an actor standing in front of the screen. I won’t ruin the climactic sequence with Jon Voight and Aubrey Plaza, but two separate sources told me unprompted it was one of the most baffling they’ve ever seen.
It’s a bummer, but that doesn’t mean Megalopolis won’t find a distributor—or even fans. Neon picked up U.S. rights to Michael Mann’s nine-figure Ferrari for pretty cheap when others passed, or maybe David Zaslav will make Warner Bros. release it so he can dine with Coppola at the Polo Lounge. But everyone I talked to agreed this is gonna be a tough sell.
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