Francis Ford Coppola it took a whopping 40 years to get off the ground with ‘Megalopolis’, an ambitious film about Science fiction that had become his dream project. He eventually had to sell off much of his wine empire to finance it himself and now it remains to be seen how much more he will have to spend as everything points to the filming is being a real disaster.
The chaos of ‘Megalopolis’
From The Hollywood Reporter they reveal that the initial budget of 120 million dollars has already increased, and that they are still in the middle of filming, and it is also in the air that everything can go ahead as planned. The motive is a barrage of layoffs and people resigning who is turning the recording of ‘Megalopolis’ into an experience almost comparable to that suffered by Coppola himself with ‘Apocalypse Now’.
The first hiccup came in early December, as the legendary ‘Godfather’ director laid off most of the film’s visual effects team led by Mark Russell (‘The Wolf of Wall Street’) and the rest of its members ended up leaving shortly after.
Not long after they were the production designer beth mickle and the art supervisor david scott who left the film. The situation has reached such a point that it seems that ‘Megalopolis’ lacks an art department right now.
From the union of art directors a statement has been released to announce that it is studying the situation to take the necessary measureswhile one of the fired people has described the situation on the set as a “complete madness“.
The situation has reached such a point that it has been decided to set aside the LED Volume technology also used by ‘The Mandalorian’ to opt for the typical green screen in order to reduce costs, with an anonymous source noting that “Coppola is going to spend a lot more than he thought. You can only imagine how much he has invested already and it would be very hard not to finish it.“. Let’s hope things don’t go that far, but it doesn’t look good.
Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Aubrey Plaza, Jason Schwartzman, Shia LaBeouf, Talia Shire, and Dustin Hoffman lead the cast of this film that tells the story of an architect who tries to rebuild the city of New York as a utopia after a disaster that has devastated everything.
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