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Francis Ford Coppola Says “Men Like Donald Trump Are Not At The Moment In Charge”; Filmmaker Pulls Jon Voight Into Political Convo At ‘Megalopolis’ Cannes Presser
"To do a Roman epic set in modern America, I had no idea that the politics of today would make that so relevant," exclaimed Francis Ford Coppola about this $120M 40-years in the making epic Megalopolis at the pic's Cannes press conference this AM.
The movie follows The City of New Rome, an allegory for New York City, in which Adam Driver’s architect Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver) squares off with a regressive status quo mayor, Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), as well as a radical renegade Clodio Pulcher (Shia LaBeouf) in the hope to build an utopian society. “Our politics have taken us to the point where we might lose a republic and so it’s not people who have become politicians who are going to be the answer, it’s the artists of America.” However on the global Cannes stage, Voight kept his remarks safe, telling Coppola that the filmmaker’s focus “is to make a better world.”
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