For anyone familiar with the stories of the making of the films of legendary US director Francis Ford Coppola, a recent article in the Hollywood Reporter would have sounded awfully familiar.

The magazine stirred the pot with an opening sentence that declared, “Francis Ford Coppola’s latest movie, the sci-fi tinged Megalopolis, has descended into chaos, according to multiple sources.” It then stuck the knife in by asserting: “To many insiders, the production is giving severe Apocalypse Now vibes, and it’s one on which the iconoclastic director is breaking a cardinal Hollywood rule: never spend your own money.”..

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