The first full length trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis has arrived.
The trailer started out in an unusual way. The trailer opened with the line, “True genius is often misunderstood,” and then proceeded to call out critics of some of Coppola‘s biggest films like 1972’s The Godfather. Negative reviews of these films were splashed on the screen before the trailer even begun.
Coppola famously self-financed this movie.
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Here’s the synopsis: MEGALOPOLIS is a Roman Epic set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver), a genius artist who seeks 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. Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero (Nathalie Emmanuel), the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties, forcing her to discover what she truly believes humanity deserves.
Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Kathryn Hunter, and Dustin Hoffman also star.
The film is set to be released on September 27.
