"The Dream Project", international director Francis Ford Coppola described his upcoming movie "Megalopolis", which he has been working on for more than 20 years.

It began in the year 2001, but the events of September 11 in the same year derailed the work, so that the story of the film for the previous years remained in his mind between development and change, and finally it was time to see the light.

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Project details

Although the story of the work is not known in its exact details so far, it is supposed to review "Megalopolis" a Roman epic that takes place in the modern era, as New York City is exposed to a fateful catastrophe, in which the country collapses completely.

An architect finds himself having to make many attempts to rebuild the city in a more ideal way, countering the fact that the city is inhabited by people unable to solve their problems, vacillating between ambition and conflict.

According to Coppola in an interview with W Magazine, the purpose of the film is to ask, "Is the society we live in the only one that is available to us? What if a utopia is not a real place that can be created? How can we then improve everything?" Around us?".

The solution is in self-financing

Despite all of Coppola's artistic value and the extent of the success that his works used to achieve, he did not find anyone who was excited about his project from the producers, but it did not cause him concern, as he had previously confronted him with his movie "Apocalypse Now", and when the working budget was approximately From $100 million, Coppola decided to sell a share of his own business and self-finance the business, with filming starting this fall and ending March 2023.

“I am not looking for more Oscars or seeking to earn money, I just want to start implementing the film,” Coppola said in an interview with an international art site, stressing that the producing companies are afraid to bet on ideas that swim against the tide, but he sees that ideas Coming from the future deserves to be taken into account.

This strong insistence of Coppola made some predict that this project may be the final work of a career that spanned more than 60 years.

It is noteworthy that Megalopolis is an independent film that combines drama and science fiction, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Talia Shire, Shia LaBeouf, Adam Driver, Natalie Emmanuel, Jason Schwartzman, Grace VanderWaal, Catherine Hunter and James Remar.

american new wave

One of the greatest sons of his generation, this is how critics describe the Italian-American director Coppola, who entered Hollywood in the sixties when the film industry was going through a series of losses. All he had to do was present works that radically changed the history of cinema and achieved material and artistic success in what was known as the “American New Wave.” And the era of "New Hollywood", which was co-built by Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Cooper and others.

During his career, Coppola presented many epic art projects with high budgets, and won several awards, the most important of which were 5 Oscars out of a total of 14 nominations from the Academy throughout his career, and these are some of the most important films he made and worth watching.

The greatest war movie in history

Although Coppola almost went bankrupt in the seventies of the last century during the filming of "Apocalypse Now" because of his huge budget, he ended up making a work that some critics see as the greatest war movie in the history of world cinema, and one of the most important films in general.

The film, which was shown in 1979, is ranked 53rd on IMDb's list of the 250 most important films in cinema history, while the audience of the site itself gave it a rating of 8.5 points.

The action won the Oscar, the British BAFTA, and the Golden Globe, and it takes place during the Vietnam War, when a US Army captain is assigned a dangerous mission that requires him to assassinate a dissident colonel, and during his journey he encounters many horrors that force him to discover the dark side, whether of war or of the human soul.

What if Dracula fell in love?

Bram Stoker's Dracula is Stephen King's favorite horror movie, released in 1992, starring Gary Oldman, Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, and Anthony Hopkins.

The work story is adapted from the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker, and revolves around a plot that can be described as the old classic horror that Coppola mixed with some romance, as we witness how Dracula behaves when he falls in love, and how violence can be a means of expressing feelings, the work won 3 Oscars at the time. , while his profits amounted to 216 million dollars.

Curriculum vitae

"Tetro" is Coppola's best film of the 21st century. The story, which seemed more experimental, was partly inspired by his private life, which stained the work with intimacy and a very honest narration, especially with the choice of filming in black and white and shooting locations that reflected the intimate character.

The events of the film show the life of a writer who escapes from his abusive family to another town after his talent faded and self-burned, before his brother, who came in search of him, reached him.

movie by chance

A common sentence in an interview about the great development that took place in the world of eavesdropping and the ability of its precise devices to filter and filter sounds and identify them easily despite the noise, was the reason for the birth of the idea for the movie “The Conversation” by Coppola, who has been writing it for two years.

The work revolves around Harry (Gene Hackman), who works by eavesdropping and eavesdropping on others in exchange for money, but he is faced with a moral dilemma when he feels - in one of the tasks - that the conversations he has may lead to the killing of their owners, and here the controlling question becomes: What do I do?

"The Godfather" .. the movie icon

The most important work in Coppola's history remains the time-immortalized "The Godfather" trilogy, starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and others, and the trilogy was nominated for 28 Academy Awards and 20 Golden Globe Awards, including 9 Academy Awards. and 5 Golden Globes, respectively, while the combined budget of the films amounted to 47 million dollars, and their profits exceeded 517 million dollars.