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Megalopolis
'MEGALOPOLIS,' Adam Driver, 2024. © Lionsgate Films / Courtesy Everett Collection
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Coppola shared a Letterboxd list featuring "Things to Come," "Spartacus," "Eyes Wide Shut," and many other films that helped him create "Megalopolis."
Megalopolis. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate
Megalon Power
Production designer Bradley Rubin stepped into "Megalopolis" midway to decipher Coppola's abstract vision. Why is there a giant clock up in the sky? How does Megalon work?
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Coppola Enters the Volume
VFX supervisor Jesse Chisholm tells IndieWire about adapting to Coppola's theatricality and poetic realism, which embraced the in-camera sense of wonder in the LED volume.
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Nathalie Emmanuel as Julia Cicero and Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina in Megalopolis. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate
The frequent Coppola collaborator talks about how their new go-for-broke experiment has been on his mind since he first worked with the director 17 years and four films ago.
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The maker of some of American cinema's most iconic films, Coppola is nonetheless an innovator and an outsider artist at heart.
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"Megalopolis" may be his biggest risk, but it comes after a career cannily combining taking chances and working within the system — and one unlikely ever to be replicated.
'Megalopolis' writer/director Francis Ford Coppola

Coppola didn’t spend $120 million on “Megalopolis” to make an ordinary film in an ordinary fashion, as the 85-year old auteur still dreams of a bright future for cinema. 
MEGALOPOLIS, Adam Driver, 2024. © Lionsgate Films / Courtesy Everett Collection
Live Cinema
Over 20 markets in North America will feature a "live participant" to accompany Francis Ford Coppola's epic.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 23: Francis Ford Coppola attends the 'Megalopolis' premiere at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on September 23, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
"Our Senate and representatives are all manipulating their own power rather than running the country," Coppola said in a Q&A before the premiere of "Megalopolis" in New York City. "We’re in danger of losing it."
Writer/Director Francis Ford Coppola and Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina in Megalopolis. Photo Credit: Phil Caruso
Filmmaker Interview
The director of "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now" tells IndieWire about leaving the studio system behind after "The Rainmaker" to find his own style as a filmmaker.
Giancarlo Esposito as Mayor Cicero in Megalopolis. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate
The "Megalopolis" actor tells IndieWire about working with Coppola for the first time on "The Cotton Club" and witnessing his early experiments with virtual filmmaking.
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