By Following the first official photo release earlier this week, filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s epic “Megalopolis” has released its first clip.
The single scene sees Adam Driver’s character climbing out a window on New York’s Chrysler building and seemingly about to plummet to his death when something decidedly odd happens.
The $120 million-budgeted film is set to have its world debut at the Cannes Film Festival in a few weeks. Coppola has credited the H.G. Wells-penned 1936 film “Things to Come” as his first inspiration.
Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Nathalie Emmanuel, Kathryn Hunter, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Schwartzman, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Chloe Fineman and James Remar also star.
In the film, the fate of Rome haunts a modern world unable to solve its own social problems in this story of a New York woman which is divided between loyalties to her father, who has a classical view of society, and her lover, who is more progressive and ready for the future.
Coppola wrote the script and is himself financing the long-gestating project which has yet to set a distributor outside of France.
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