Francis Ford Coppola announced Saturday that he remains committed to the pharaonic project that has kept him in suspense for decades: Megalopolis , a film "about the utopia," which he defines as "more ambitious even than Apocalypse Now ."
"I worked in Megalopolis 20 years ago. I really tried. I wanted to make a film about utopia, about what heaven really is on earth," the American director told a press conference in Lyon, where he received the Lumière Prize for His entire career .
"I have a script, and I think for the first time I approach the goal for the first time," added the 80-year-old director. He also claimed that he abandoned this project after the attacks on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.
"I think it will have a much larger budget than 'Apocalypse Now', which had a budget of 30 million dollars at the time," he added.
"That is the problem," he acknowledged, because it is a "Marvel scale" film in terms of production. "I have to find a way to achieve it."
He also said that this film, in which an architect tries to build a utopian vision of a New York destroyed by a cataclysm, is "about a man who has a vision of the future" and, more specifically, I try to portray the eternal "conflict" between the new and the "traditions of the past". But it is not only. It's also a great love story: "I always wanted to make my great love story. I think it's time."
When asked about Martin Scorsese, who recently stated that superhero movies such as those in the Marvel studios "were not movies," Francis Ford Coppola did not hesitate to give his colleague and friend his reason.
"The cinema is expected to bring us something, lighting, knowledge, inspiration," he continued. "Martin fell short when he said they were not movies. It fell that they are simply despicable. This is what I think."
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