Francis Ford Coppola's New Movie Is In Trouble | Megalopolis
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Megalopolis is an upcoming American epic science fiction drama film written, directed, and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. We have our first reactions and reviews of the movie now available.
I did some remodeling work on Mr Coppola's home back in the 90s and got to talk to him quite a bit. He was very polite and talkative, told me quite a few stories. Great guy.
Well, thanks for retelling them to us...oh wait, no, fuck you for nothing.
@@williamlangeii4012what’s got you so mad 😭😭 weirdo
@cwega2463 Tardos like you, maybe ?
My condolences to Mr. Coppola for the death of his wife, artist & accomplished filmmaker Eleanor Coppola. Likewise, he lost his oldest son Gio in a tragic boating accident during the production of "Gardens of Stone" in the 80's.
The "commercialization" of his 80's movies, which was briefly mentioned, was the result of some difficulty in Coppola's life at the time. He had to "sell out" to make more mainstream Hollywood movies because of the disastrous losses incurred when he tried to create his own movie studio, akin to the old MGM, Fox, & WB "Golden Age of Hollywood" studio system, where his actors, film crews, pre & post-production teams, & every other personnel were under contract to the studio.
The old studio system had crumbled, but Coppola thought he could succeed where the others had failed, because he approached it completely as an artistic endeavor instead of a business. He took influence from the mentality of United Artist's original intent, which gave nearly unchecked support to the creativity, making a haven for austere directors like Coppola & Scorsese to blossom. Unfortunately, it's reliance to that end resulted in director Michael Cimino to run it into the ground with his runaway production of the infamous "Heaven's Gate."
Coppola didn't learn from the UA/"Heaven's Gate" debacle & created his own with the disastrous "One From the Heart" as mentioned in the vid. He ran out the funds to such a degree that he was unable to pay his employees. Because of this, he had to take jobs as a "director-for-hire" to get himself out of the hole & repay investors.
Nowadays, he's become a "wine magnate" with wineries in California & Oregon. In fact, he sold some of his wineries to fund "Megalopolis." He's paid for it completely out-of-pocket & has a lot riding on its success. We'll see how it plays out.
Wait, you've never seen his 1980s classics ''Rumble Fish'' and ''The Outsiders''? Even the highly underrated ''The Cotton Club'' and ''Tucker: The Man and His Dream'' are well worth watching.
I thought Peggy Sue Got Married was a good movie too.
As a lover of vintage car, I liked Tucker a lot.
Studios will waste money on Indiana Jones dial of dickweed, terminator dark fate (pretty prescient title), and The Flash (more like The Flush), but they won't take a gasp of a chance on a literal titan of cinema, even in this "new age of the auteur."
Some things never change
those people are totally insane.
@@GaminHasardthey aren’t insane because their job isn’t to make great movies but to make money. If people stop supporting shit and support the greats instead or even support A24 films you’ll see more films like that get made
Batwoman. So terrible that they shot the whole thing and then threw it away.
No kidding . Just put it out and get Coppola to do the rounds of youtube creater interviews and show clips .
Screw traditional marketing .
Who is watching any of that stuff anyway ? Unless it's aired on a live sporting event , no one watches commercials ?
It will be competing with the freiken" Fall guy ' and some woke crap ?
Why is everyone stupid?
@@barry4649They're all losing money hand over fist with their woke crap ? And the fucking "Fall Guy " retrash?
What planet are you living on ?
i can't wait to see the documentary about the movie, showing everyone going insane in the filming
😄😆😅🤣
Shia labeouf: all I’m doing is waiting for Adam driver so I could-
Francis Ford Coppola: why are you waiting for Adam Driver ?Adam doesn’t do anything. You just walk right out of the thing.
Shia storms off angry
@@quarantinebored1427 🤣.....stop
Doc? This one will be a 10 part mini-series!!
Hearts of Megadarkness
These are the same people who thought The Flash and Terminator: Dark Fate were good ideas.
All I know is I want to see it.
Exactly ! Some woke crap or the Fall Guy .
Or Coppala's possibly great, or not , last film?
And by the way, if you're gonna rehash an old Lee Majors vehicle, why the Fall Guy & not the Six Million Dollar Man ?
And why, for the love of God , is everyone stupid?
Yep they are worse than gamblers, their minds can fail so miserably trying to get what it craves(money) so I can’t take their opinions (even about commercial movies) seriously
I really liked The Outsiders and Rumble Fish.
I think it'll be an interesting watch either way. We need more auteurs, not franchises and remakes.
And who's going to pay for them?
@@williamlangeii4012 maybe A24
This is *great* news to me! Every great Francis Ford Coppola movie has been "in trouble"! The Godfather, he was fired and re-hired several times, once in the same day. Part 2 he didn't even want to make it, and it was a headache. Apocalypse Now, there was a revolution in the Philippines, nervous exhaustion of Coppola, heart attack for Sheen...I can't wait to see the "troubled" Megalopolis!
It’s weird when Spielberg Francis and Scorsese can’t get a movie made in the studio system.
they must be loyle to their capos
Scorse, and most especially Spielberg, are Hollywood directors. Coppola has always been more of an independent.
They are pedos
Coppola is in a different category. his movies were art movies really. Apocalypse now is really bizarre. The Conversation... his movies made a lot of money when people wanted to watch art movies... Star Wars changed the film business. Movies never got dumber... the target audience intelligence level just went down in efforts to capture everyone with a mid product instead of a weird experimental movie.
@@MicahMicahel nope. All garbage
2007's 'Tetro' was a satisfying movie plot-wise and the most gorgeously shot black and white movie since the classics of the 40's and 50's.
At the end, that is the reason Zoetrope studios was put up, to make films outside the rules of Hollywood. This is his ultimate independent film, and he can afford it. It is his biggest "up yours" to the hollywood system.
Yeah, but that's the problem. He CAN'T "afford" it. He has literally gone broke making this money and it's already being called the biggest flop in movie history.
@@williamlangeii4012 I believe he can afford it, he reportedly sold majority of his Coppola winery for over 500M and still kept his luxury wine brand Inglenook. So even if he doesn't recoup the 120M investment he is still doing ok.
I love zoetropes.
@@williamlangeii4012 I don't think it will flop. It's being shown in Imax, and I don't think he made the movie for money either. People love to bitch about everything. I'm sure it's not as horrible as they say
From internet: Some early reviews of Apocalypse Now were negative, with one user on Metacritic calling it "a pretentious load of nonsense, badly acted and full of ham-acting performances". Another review on Reelviews Movie Reviews criticized the film's ending as "anticlimactic and disappointing" and the final half-hour as "borderline-incoherent, badly written".
Those reviews sound like extreme cope from people who didn't even see the movie wtf. Probably the same thing Megalopolis is dealing with
Coppola also won an Oscar for writing the screenplay for the superb 1970 war movie PATTON based on the anti-heroic WW2 general George S. Patton.
One of my favorites
George C. Scott may have been a horrible human being.
But he was one of the greatest actors of all time.
Anyone who hasn't seen it needs to check it out.
Garanteed it'll be the best movie you will see all year.
@@alanbeam7187
Well, Patton could be pretty horrible as well maybe that's why he played him so brilliantly. A great actor playing a great general, no matter their flaws, they were exceptional at their craft.
@@alanbeam7187 Horrible human being?
He was spent creatively by the mid 1990s but already given his fellow men priceless gifts.
Megalopolis insists upon itself.
Peter Griffen 👍
Because it has a valid point to make, it's insisting!
I just want to say that I got to see Coppola's magna opus in theaters when it premiered, whether it's a master-mess or masterpiece.
I want to see it, I mean I sat through Madame Web
You will watch anything, anon. That’s all I got from this.
Just remember that distributors aren't the arbiters of quality.
it might be that the movie is against the woke ideology. or not even against it but runs contrary to corporate leftist ESG score globalism on some level. If it was pro esg globalist it would've been funded probably. There would be something rebellious possibly.. at least that's part of the independent promise, that we get thoughts that run contrary.
People's problem is they go to see it thinking of immortal classics like The Godfather or Apocalypse Now and how his last few films were awful, although TETRO was not bad . Now keep in mind he wrote this film back around the time he was still making good films like his hidden gem Rumble Fish, along with The Cotton Club and The Outsiders. People need to also realize that every great movie he did was met with uncertainty that it would make a profit. Coppola is the definition of what it means to do what you love and not for what you can get in return. If all directors thought like this maybe we would get a great film atleast once a year instead of having to wait now the standard 5 years or more for something that will never hold a candle to this mans work. Most people don't know what they want in a film until you give it to them. Keep in mind that every Coppola film that people adore was met with the same speculations. I wish his film the best although It would of been amazing to see Dicaprio in it instead.
Can’t wait to see this. Remember no-one had high expectations of The Godfather, even after executives first saw it. RUMBLE FISH is his magnum opus.
The problem is i think, what is the point, Megalopolis. It clearly sounds like a film about a massive city with a even bigger society. But in this day and age, that kind of film isnt necessary or groundbreaking. Infact it has been done before. Ridley Scott did it in Blade Runner, George Lucas did it in the Star Wars prequels. Is it going to be a dystopian society where everyone is driven my commercialism and consumerism? Theyve made movies like that already too. This may have been a groundbreaking and ambitious idea in the 70s, making a movie of a massive city with bug set pieces to illustrate just how huge things are. But now its not so impressive.
''Bram Stoker's Dracula not bad'' ???!! Are you playing with a full deck? It's a masterpiece of film making! Don't know where to begin with its brilliance! Apart from Keanu's poor performance, which didn't so much hinder the movie it is a unique, profound homage to the world of cinema, not just horror and romance! 😲 I believe in Megalopolis, I believe in Coppola's genius!
And I believe you have bad taste, fren 🤨
😂😂😂
Epic
Totally agreed it was his only best from the 90s.
THIS MOVIE GOT TO HAVE SOME ELITE NEW WORLD ORDER EASTER EGG PREDICTIONS
No need to shout.
@@justinsidious9772 I THOUGHT ITS JUST CAPITAL LETTERS ,, WHICH IS STILL LEGAL
@@lancethrust9488
It's not illegal but reaks of douchebaggery
@@lancethrust9488 GUILTY! of being a giant douche!
That's what it sounds like to me too. the fact that it's independent means he couldn't get corporate ESG money by pushing leftist values.
I'm very intrigued by the line in the trailer, so apt for modern times :
Is this society, the way we are living, the only one available to us ?
All the controversy is intriguing. Distributors only care about profits and losses. Auteurs care about content and style. I will watch it with an auteurs eye. I don’t care what the “experts”say: I will watch this film and make my own determination. I suggest that you all do the same.
I guess he should do The Godfather Part IV as his last film. Or, Apocalypse Now Part 2.
“Apocalypse Now and Then”
One From The Heart had money probkems..Coppola built Vegas in an old Mint in San Francisco. An incredible amount of neon and sets.
Back then it never occurred to me to not see it because it was hard to make. You're either a dedicated fan or you ain't. You go. Tarkovsky's The Mirror would make about 10 grand if it was released now. If that. But the film is considered incredible.
I'm half and half on his work but i'll gladly watch it, it's gonna be released in IMAX right? If available near me, I'm there.
Isnt this what A24 is for?
Id like to see this , and Im a huge Shia LaBeouf fan , great actor , who's personal bar is set very high . Looking forward to this film , guessing I'll be going alone as I cant imagine anyone I know would be interested to see it .
the movie is controversial at its core - but then again..what could be controversial these days? can't wait to see it.
Rumblefish, The Outsiders, The Cotton Club, Bram Stoker’s Dracula etc. etc. etc. lots of fine films after Apocalypse Now
A24? Would they take it? What do you think
probably not since it is a huge financial risk. it cost like $120 million
I don't know bout all dat I just know that Bram Stroker's Dracula is the best vampire movie I've ever seen..it was The Godfather of the vampire genre.
Apocalypse now is my favorite movie.
The theatrical release of The Outsiders is a classic
ugh, shia labeouf is in it. think i'll pass.
I won't pass but I certainly will do my insignificant part. Watch it on the high seas.
Shia has made some great films on his own.
Thought Shia did well in "Holes" but I truly haven't seen much new films with him lately so I'm undecided about him as an actor.
I will go see this, no question. One look at the state of movies today tells you we need some risk taking, and Coppola is certainly doing that and should be rewarded.
there are plenty of movies taking risks that are releasing every month. if you don’t see them then that’s on you
@@cwega2463 Did any the producers sell their vineyards to fund it? Also, did any of them make a movie like Apocalypse Now? Please send me the list of those producers releasing movies…
I'm optimistic. I don't trust Hollywood studio executives. They think with their politics and have lost billions of dollars doing so.
Godfather III is excellent. It’s not better than the first two, but it’s a solid epilogue to the Godfather saga.
The horror… the horror…
Refuse to distribute a Francis film but rather put out another Planet Of The Apes absolute dog 💩..
02:40; ' an evil man who becomes good and a good man who become evil'; from the very end of the "GF 2" dvd audio commentary in 2001.
I’m definitely interested in seeing this movie.I like to see visions of the future and,unlike some people,I’m not necessarily looking for that vision to predict what that future will be(sometimes,when people evaluate an early vision of the future,they seem to do it only on the metric of how accurate predictions were,not how good or imaginative the story was,for example)but only what it might be:Wishful thinking as apposed to extrapolationThis brings me to an idea as to how it could be marketed.Talk about how it is made by the same man who created certain cinematic landmarks.talk about how he believed in this project so much that he took steps others might not have to ensure it got made.Finally,mention how it is a bold move because he(the director,of course) is venturing into territory he really hasn’t stepped into before(futurism.Yes,he helped George Lucas produce THX-1138,and May as far as I know have helped him direct it,but this is the first such movie he has directed on his own) and putting his own unique stamp on it by combining it with a historical story,set in that future.
We'll just have to wait and see.
I personnaly loved 2009 Tetro.
1983 Rumble fish is Brilliant
Sadly I’m more than certain it’ll never see the light of day at least not while Coppola is alive or an edit that’s as close to his original vision as possible. Although the fact that he or anyone else who’s seen it can give a clear one paragraph summary of the film is such a red flag that the corpse of Vladimir Lenin got an errection that could be seen from space.
Take my money, this is Real Cinema History !! the real deal doesn't matter what Hollywood says.
Just stream it
Still going to see it. Fuck the critics!
I want to see it. I hope it finds a distributor.
Dracula is a masterpiece.
Dracula had its moments but was a sprawling, overlong, undisciplined mess like Apocalypse, Cimino's Heaven's Gate, Oliver Stone's Alexander, Orson Welles's Other Side of the Wind, Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and Ridley Scott's Napolean. Coppola's last great film didnt have be an overblown epic that cost him his winery. He had the genius to write and direct a groundbreaking film on a pin-money budget of 10 million or maybe less. It doesnt take a billion dollars to make a wonderful film: it takes a great filmmaker like Copplola to reign himself in.
I've been watching all of his films recently, even the less popular ones. I haven't gotten to his newest films yet. I'm sure this next one will be at least an interesting film to discuss, which is better than a slick but boring film
Morgoth, have you had a coffee?
I haven't watched Coppola movies aside from the main ones but my guess he's a great artist but he's not that good of a writer and to make a great movie you definitely need a great script and screenplay
Dude he wrote Apocalypse now, Patton, Is paris Burning, The conversation , The rainmaker and co wrote the godfather
So he is a talented writer
Well, judging the utter crap studios have been putting out, this film is either really good or its so bad even they don't want to touch it.
THEY are only talkin'' bout ''Business'' & ''Money'', but have no idea of real art....remember what they said about during the making and after its release of ''Apocalypse Now''?
On his name alone, he gets his money back at worse. As the narrator so eloquently states thier are legions of fans who based on his rep alone wiil pay to watch it.
I think film is a dying medium and the story of this film exemplifies part of why. Film as a cultural institution used to be monumental, an event. Back when the Oscars meant something. Back when auteur filmmakers were kings, and the stars used to really open a film. The Coppola family has been involved in film for its entire history and they've seen it all. As for Francis, gathering the stars and resources for an auteur's dream is so very retro, back to the days of David Lean and Robert Altman. In its inception, the film industry was full of mavericks and speculators. The fact that today's corporate studios are incapable of taking risks, or supporting visionary film art like they did half a century ago, shows the decay of the form. I do think new technologies will allow story telling in new ways (AI and VR being the big culprits). I do think there are more feature films existing today than will ever be made in the future. In a hundred years, people will think of the feature film the way people today think of opera. It will be a vintage thing for niche interests. Is it sad? As a film writer myself, yes. Oh god yes! It positively guts me. But the silver lining is there is over a century of film one can go find right now and enjoy. Get those blurays and hold on to em.
Its going to be Coppolas last film.
His only science fiction ?
And the studio heads that put out nothing but garbage with zero taste not liking it is a good sign .
And marketing ?
Just put it out and do the rounds with youtube creator interviews.
And then, whats it competing against?.A rehash of a mediocre tv series from the 80s know one cares about ( if you were going to make a Lee Majors vehicle remake , why not the 6 Million Dollar Man ?) With the Fall Guy ? Or some woke crap ?
Why is everyone stupid ?
your opinion on movie’s is automatically invalid if you genuinely use the word “woke” as a criticism. grow up.
Robert Evans is having himself a laugh
They reconciled in the 80s
So he's remaking The Fountainhead.
Ayn Rand, another fucking money machine
no.
Very excited
I don’t know why Peter Jackson, Cameron step in and give him financial backing and help with fx.
Hey he got shia and adam driver together thats cool
Crappola's not made anything worth talking about for forty-five years.
I think the Rainmaker is super enjoyable. I've seen it several times.
Bullsh*t take.
Bullshit. Dracula is flawed, but it’s an epic with some incredible filmmaking.
@@happymaskedguy1943 Well, you're a sick old buzzard!
Apparently neither has your mom, assuming you're under 45.
It's going to tank.
sounds like Guy Maddin's The Heart of the World
No. Guy had that insane perfect music to cut too. (I saw Maddin here in S.F. give a talk, and he showed Heart)
Sorry dude i am going to have to call bull shit on the hollywood reporter article the film is going to the cannes film festival in competition and the number one is rule no one is allowed to see the film before it premiere not even distbuters or critics
I’m going to take criticism like “It is so not good” with an immense gain of salt.
THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR A24
They don't want it. North American rights will be picked up by one of the streamers - Amazon or Apple.
First godfather was ok but too slow. Then it went down hill. Since Apocalypse Now he has done nothing of value.
Sasha Labeouf ?? 🤦♂
Who here is qualified to comment?
I mean, he hasn’t made a good move since the outsiders .
Well that is rather subjective as a lot of people love his version of Dracula and the rainmaker
the cotton club is good (just don't take it seriously).
I think its going 2 be a disaster....
The original star wars and the original Vertigo were streaming pieces of Shit and there was nothing wrong with there directors they were both heavily edited and became the classics they are ...
Art and creativity need a tension between the vision and the reality of whats possible
Really bad films are when a there is a terrible director or B the brilliant director is allowed to run wild with no control... we are fortunate that with star wars and Vertigo the people involved found the Humility to ask for help and a recognition that it had all gone wrong somehow
there are plenty of examples where directors had free reign to do whatever they want and it results in a masterpiece. you’re talking out of your ass
Honey, hush.
Apparently not about MEghan Markle.
go go go hype the bs 💪😋
I must be out of the Hollywood loop but which actor besides LaBeouf is even slightly controversial? I don't think he is either btw
I actually laughed out loud. Thank you, for that. I salute all 3 of ur IQ points 🫡
Sorry, but Godfather 3 isn't just bad, it's a total piece of s**t in every way. Nothing in that film works, it's pathetic trash from start to finish.
Politics - is it woke?
Perchance
Very likely. The cast is a bunch of crazy over the top lefties like Shia
Films always have been political
@@rupertsmith5815 not every film
@@b.a.n20O3 the vast majority are
Sounds like a piece of shit. If Coppola believes in it, let him put up money for marketing.
Sounds like complete crap. Two maybe three decent movies 50 years ago. Come on, we know it’s garbage
The outsiders, Dracula, The rainmaker, Apocalypse Now, The conversation, Rumble Fish, Godfather art 1 and 2
Coppola needs and editor
He has Walter Murch.
@@sclogse1 he peaked in 1975
This is the vouce of the History Buffs guy, right?
No
Megaflopolis. 😂😂😂😂
The title alone makes me want to stay home. 😪
And he just lost Elenore, so I bet he don't care anymore. He just wants his vision out there, accounting be damned.
He should have just got his daughter to direct
Why ?
you're a real comedian.
Coppola's wanted to make this movie for over 30 years, and he's finally done it. Good or bad, I want to see it.
Why doesn’t he ask Disney there in the business of loosing money 💰🤪
hehehe
And you're in the business of really bad spelling.
"I know he hasn't made good movies in years but let's get behind the man" Cine is a come from behind kind of guy
He’s no longer part of our social club
@@donkeysaurusrex7881 Social club? He's gotta GO!!
Think about it… sudden weight loss…
He just doesn't want his bottom line impacted
@@TG-ld8hl Nobody's got AIDS, and I don't want to hear that word in here again!
I think that I will adore Megalopolis. I am no stranger to loving experimental filmmaking (Charlie Kaufman is the greatest filmmaker to ever live in my opinion) and the fact that studio heads think that this film is too inaccessible actually increases my excitement dramatically. Some people will adore this film and call it a masterpiece, others will be turned off and hate. I am expecting Megalopolis to be the Synecdoche, New York of the 2020’s (which is my favorite film ever made)
he should just make Cleaver as his Magnum Opus
The sacred and the propane
Don't bitcha to me
I must be loyle to my capo
It will need an arc.
😂😂😂
It reminds me of Jodorowsky's failed attempt to bring his version of Dune to the screen. Between the ambition and the realization there was an insurmountable abyss which he could not bridge. I imagine it would have been a massive pretentious mess---but I wish it existed. The documentary is fascinating and his enthusiasm to bring this project to life is very infectious. As far as Coppola goes I'd have to go all the way back to Apocalypse Now for a film of his I genuinely enjoyed and still watch periodically. I did like Peggy Sue Gets Married. It's lightweight but was fun. His Dracula is laughably campy and I still wonder if it wasn't a very expensive practical joke. I'm curious about Megalopolis and will go in with an open mind. I don't know if he has formally announced that this would be his last film, but I never take anyone at their word---although I do hope Tarantino does retire after his next movie.
The recent revision and re release of Godfather 3 proved worth the purchase. But he changed the ending from the original theatrical release! Always keeps us guessing, and always worth the wait!
He changed the ending so when this becomes the colossal flop it's going to be he can come back and do Godfather 4, "Michael's Revenge" and buy his vineyard back. 😅😅
I for one can't wait to watch every big, messy, confusing second of this film.
Coppola's always been a much better director of scenes than he is a crafter of story structure or even basic clarity. But whatever. We're not going to get something pedestrian here, so I'm in. Remember Warren Beatty's disastrous return to filmmaking after eighteen years? Neither does anyone else.
The studios didn't know how to market The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, Gardens of Stone......
Rumble Fish is so underrated.