‘Megalopolis’: fuelled by the smell of chaos in the morning
Is history repeating itself on the set of Francis Ford Coppola’s latest film?
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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