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It’s Official: Megalopolis Is a Box-Office Mega Flop(olis)
Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed $136 million drama sunk under the weight of its negative buzz.
In Francis Ford Coppola’s allegorical, phantasmagorical fever-dream passion-project Megalopolis, Adam Driver portrays a visionary civic planner who can stop time with his mind and builds towering, surreally fluid cityscapes with the help of a mysterious substance called Megalon. The maverick American auteur behind Apocalypse Now and the Godfather trilogy began conjuring the movie’s script back in the early ’80s and borrowed $200 million against his Napa Valley winery business to personally bankroll Megalopolis’ s nine-figure budget when studio backers deemed the project too risky. Its production designer, visual effects supervisor, and supervising art director (in addition to the whole rank-and-file VFX team) quit during filming due to what has been characterized as an epic case of “creative differences” with Coppola.
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