Coppola’s last hurrah or final flop? Inside ‘Godfather’ director’s troubled ‘Megalopolis’
nypost.comMegalopolis,” which began as a script he started 40 years ago. None of Hollywood’s studio bosses liked it then — and now it’s unclear when or if it will end up in American theaters.
After the sci-fi film — about the fight for a utopian society and starring Adam Driver, Shia LaBeouf and Aubrey Plaza — premiered at Cannes International Film Festival on May 16, Vanity Fair called it a “dreary boondoggle“and The Guardian described it as “megabloated.” It is not the late-career triumph that the great filmmaker, now 85, likely hoped for.
A Coppola friendtold The Post that the director felt “very upset that they didn’t give him an award” at Cannes. And even before “Megalopolis” was screened, whispers circulated about mayhem on the Fayetteville, Georgia, set.Unnamed sources recently claimed to the Guardian that Coppola tried to kiss topless performers in the movie’s nightclub scene and retreated to his trailer to smoke weed.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Coppola lost his entire art department due to a combination of firings and resignations.“It was absolute madness, being on set,” a talent representative whose client was among those fired told THR in a January 2023 report.And one Hollywood insider who knew Coppola told The Post that he isn’t surprised by the alleged madness.
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