By There’s been a lot of discussion about Francis Ford Coppola’s epic “Megalopolis” since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival the other day, but one sticking point with distributors is proving to be an issue of practicality.
At a certain point in the film, it breaks the fourth wall as a live performer walked out onto the stage at Cannes in front of the cinema screen and engaged with Adam Driver’s character.
That leads to the obvious question as to whether distributors will be able to replicate this moment, and what about the eventual home video release. Jean Labadie, who runs French distributor Le Pacte, tells Deadline they plan to go through with it:
“We certainly will do a lot of such performances. With four screenings a day in many theaters it will not be easy to do it for each screening. It will be organized, but we cannot predict how many times we’ll be able to do it. We will work on that with every exhibitor in France to try to do it as many times as we can.
We have only 22 IMAX theaters in France, but we are eager to try to show Francis Ford Coppola’s creation the way he invented it. How we go about that is not so easy to say.”
It has been confirmed that other preview screenings of the movie have included the conceit. However a U.S. distributor has not yet been locked and so IMAX plans for the movie remain unclear.
Critics of the film have been wildly divided – some adoring, some despising and few calling it boring.
Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman, D.B. Sweeney, and Dustin Hoffman co-star.
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