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Cannes Boss Thierry Fremaux on Courting ‘Megalopolis,’ Missing Out on ‘Dune 2’ and How Hollywood Strikes Will Impact 2024 Fest (EXCLUSIVE)
Ahead of Cannes' lineup announcement, festival chief Thierry Fremaux discusses his hopes for 'Megalopolis' and the impact of the Hollywood strikes.
This year’s edition is already heating up, with George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” confirmed to premiere at the festival and Quentin Dupieux’s “A Second Act,” starring Léa Seydoux, set as the opening night film. In his first and only interview ahead of the lineup reveal, Fremaux tells Variety all about this year’s edition, including his hopes to welcome back Francis Ford Coppola with “ Megalopolis ” and Yorgos Lanthimos with “Kinds of Kindness,” his appeal to Ted Sarandos to lure Netflix back on the Croisette, his stance on France’s new #MeToo reckoning, the presence of female directors at the festival and how geopolitical turmoil may shape the Official Selection. Selfishly, I would have liked the studio to wait until Cannes to unveil “ Dune 2 ” to the world, but I understand that it was important for them to release it at the beginning of the year since it had already been pushed back this fall.
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