Megalopolis, a pharaonic project on which director Francis Ford Coppola has been working for more than 20 years, seems to be about to materialize. The casting of the main roles would be completed. The headliner? Adam Driver.
Posted at 12:28 p.m.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, whoever plays Kylo Ren in the Star Wars saga will play the main character of this film that has been in the making for more than 20 years. At his side, we will find Nathalie Emmanuel, Forest Whitaker, Jon Voight and Laurence Fishburne. The latter had also been revealed by the director in Apocalypse Nowin 1979.
Megalopolis will tell the story of an architect who tries to build a utopian vision of New York, after the city is destroyed by a cataclysm. Asked about the project in 2019, Francis Ford Coppola said it was his “most ambitious film, even more ambitious thanApocalypse Now “.
The director had left aside the scenario of Megalopolis after the September 11 attacks, before resuming it. The project, valued at nearly 100 million dollars, is financed by Francis Ford Coppola.
With Agence France-Presse