Director Francis Ford Coppola has declared at Italian Busto Arsizio Festival this week that he won't make his long in development sci-fi epic "Megalopolis" any time soon reports Estrenos de Cine.
So why not? Because "It is a very ambitious project, perhaps too much, and at this moment I believe that it does not go ahead, so I have chosen to stop and to reflect". Instead he's into a very different project: he's planning to open a little hotel in the South of Italy.
The acclaimed "Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now" director described the project once thus "The setting is modern New York. It deals... with the idea that the future world we're going to live in is being negotiated today... It's kind of a shape-of-things-to-come film in which the characters are concerned with artists, businessmen, proletariat all having a stake in the future but very few of them having a hand in what it's going to be like. It's a little bit like an Ayn Rand novel."
He has been developing it on and off for well over a decade now with various factors along the way ranging from financial problems to 9-11 causing delays and setbacks - not the least of which being that the distribution was expected to be handled by the now defunct United Artists. Already hours of second unit footage is said to exist and the likes of Nicolas Cage, Russell Crowe, Robert De Niro, Paul Newman, Parker Posey, and Kevin Spacey have all been attached at one time or another.
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