Famous actor Dustin Hoffman, two-time Oscar winner for Kramer vs. Kramer Y Rain Manwas hired to complete the cast of Megalopolisthe upcoming epic drama from legendary American director Francis Ford Coppola, the director of Apocalypse Now and the saga The Godfather.
According to reports from the specialized site Deadline, Hoffman thus joins the cast led by Adam Driver, Laurence Fishburne, Forest Whitaker and Nathalie Emmanuel, known for the role of Missandei in the hit HBO streak. game of Throneswho will occupy the main roles in the film.
In addition, the film will see the participation of other well-known faces of the Hollywood circuit such as Jon Voight, Shia Labeouf, Jason Schwarzman and Talia Shire, Coppola’s sister, with whom he had already worked on the trilogy of The Godfather like Connie, Vito’s only daughter,
Comedian Chloe Fineman, known for her work on the cycle Live Saturday nightIsabelle Kusmann (Licorice pizza), young singer Grace VanderWaal, Kathryn Hunter (Macbeth’s tragedy) and James Remar (Right) are also part of the list of performers.
Production details
Megalopolis Filming will begin in these autumn months in North America, in the state of Georgia.
The film will be financed almost entirely by the director himself, who will invest around $ 100 million in the production, given the lack of interest from other studios in taking on the project.
Almost two decades have passed since Coppola conceived it and it will focus on a post-dystopian version of New York, where an architect tries to rebuild the city after being razed to the ground by a devastating disaster in a utopian city.
However, his vision will conflict with that of the corrupt and conservative mayor, who will aim to destroy the plans and reputation of the protagonist through grievances and relations with local organized crime.
In this sense, it is known that Coppola was inspired by the history of ancient Rome, crossed by elements of political ambition, genius and passion, since – as the director himself commented in press statements – “if contemporary societies are not responsible by solving problems such as inequality and environmental destruction, our environment will collapse as that civilization did. “
When it became known last February that he himself would be financially responsible for the film, the director explained in a dialogue with GQ magazine that “he doesn’t care about the financial impact”.
Winner of two Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Coppola said with regret that the reaction of the most important Hollywood executives when he presented “Megalopolis” was the same as when he proposed “Apocalypse Now” after winning five Oscars. and “be the number one director.
a cursed project
“I am the owner of Apocalypse now Because no one else wanted it, so imagine what the reaction will be now if it was like this when I was 33, or anyway I was old when I won all the awards and broke all the records, and yet absolutely no one wanted to get on board. “In that. occasion.
Coppola, who also works as a producer through the American company Zoetrope – founded in 1969 with his friend and colleague George Lucas – said that “I knew that Megalopolis would be more difficult to finance the more personal it became, the closer it came to your dream. “.
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Source: Clarin
