Earlier today, the first trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis was released online, giving the public a taste of the director’s first feature in over a decade following its polarizing premiere at the Cannes Festival in May. However, now Lionsgate , which is handling the upcoming 2024 movie ’s distribution, is is pulling the trailer from theaters and online. The reason: it uses movie review quotes that were made up.
Let me provide some context first. If you missed seeing the Megalopolis trailer, it features negative pull quotes from reviews of some of Coppola’s past movies, including The Godfather , Apocalypse Now and Dracula . This was done to show how just because a movie is received poorly at the time of its initial release doesn’t mean it can’t become a classic years later.
But as Vulture pointed out, the quotes used in the Megalopolis trailer aren’t actually from those reviews written back in the day by greats like Pauline Kale, Andrew Sarris and Roger Ebert . While it’s unclear where these quotes came from or why they were included in the preview rather than using actual portions from the reviews, Variety received the following statement from Lionsgate regarding its decision to pull the Megalopolis trailer, saying: As Barbenheimer Hype Train Keeps Rolling, Francis Ford Coppola Reacts To Oppenheimer And Barbie’s Impact On The Film Industry Why George Lucas’ Star Wars Success Makes Francis Ford Coppola Feel ‘Sadness’ Examples of these made-.