Adam Driver is an architect who can control time the first look clip front Francis Ford Coppola's upcoming self-financed film, Megapolis.
In the two-minute video, driver Cesar Catilina makes his way to the edge of a skyscraper, apparently considering jumping. As he is about to step completely out of the building, he shouts “Time stop” and the cars below him pause at his command, and he leans back on a stable surface.
The movie, that will premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17 is a Roman epic that is described as taking place in an imaginary modern America.
“The city of New Rome needs to change, causing a conflict between Cesar Catilina, a genius artist who wants to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), who remains committed to a regressive status quo. perpetuating greed, special interests and partisan warfare,” the logline reads. “Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero (Nathalie Emmanuel), the mayor's daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties and forced her to discover what she truly believes humanity deserves.”
Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Jason Schwartzman, Laurence Fishburne, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman, James Remar, DB Sweeney and Dustin Hoffman round out the cast of the director's self-financed film.
Coppola first started writing Megapolis in 1983, and the film reportedly cost $120 million to make, which was partly financed by the sale of a significant portion of the director's wine empire. In late March, he hosted a screening of the project for potential buyers, with Universal's Donna Langley, Netflix's Ted Sarandos and Sony's Tom Rothman all in attendance.
However, over a month later, the film is still looking for distribution, as several attendees at the screening said The Hollywood Reporter That Megapolis will face an uphill battle. One distributor said, “There's just no way to position this movie,” while another noted that while “everyone is rooting for the director,” “there is a business side.”
One studio head even said, “It's so not good, and it was so sad to watch it. Everyone who P&A [prints and advertising] behind that you're going to lose money.
However, not all responses to Megapolis were negative. A specialty label founder said, “I really enjoyed it,” adding that it is a “really big movie” that “has a real life.” … How do you define commercial? You watch a movie like bladerunner, and it became so much more commercial than opening weekend.