To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola ’s Megalopolis is finally out in UK cinemas, allowing fans their long-awaited look at his $120,000,000 (£91.3m) comeback movie – and it’s not like anything you could possibly expect. An idea that he began developing back in the 1980s, the filmmaker who brought us The Godfather and Apocalypse Now has had some wild swings in his career like One From the Heart.
However, the ambition and plain weirdness of Megalopolis puts it in a league of its own, not to mention all the behind the scenes drama . Oh yes, and the ‘screw up’ of its trailer quoting fake reviews . But now we get to the actual meat of the film – anyone for alarming erections, incest and a live-performance element? Coppola has unsurprisingly attracted a star-studded cast with the likes of Adam Driver , Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf , Laurence Fishburne and Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito as the father of Game of Thrones star Nathalie Emmanuel.
Megalopolis is told as a heavily Roman-inspired epic set in an imagined modern America where a genius artist called Cesar Catalina (Driver) seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future with his building plans while butting horns with arch-conservative mayor, Franklyn Cicero (Esposito). Oh yes, and Cesar has the power to stop time, which seems like a whole separate film’s plotline on its.