At the end of September, the first film in almost 15 years by the prominent American director Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis, is to be released. And this is an extraordinary event that both audiences and critics are looking forward to. However, the film company Lionsgate, which is producing the film, has severely spoiled this expectation with a scandal.
According to Mashable, the company released a trailer for the fantasy film that used fake quotes attributed to real movie critics. It only took a few hours to expose this lie. And to force Lionsgate to apologize to both Coppola and the critics in question.
In its apology, the company even used the expression screwed up, which can be translated as a rude "screwed up." In the video that appeared online, the idea was to present the main character, played by Adam Driver, as a contradictory personality through a parallel with the film's director. "True genius is often misunderstood," said a voiceover.
After that, quotes from allegedly famous film critics began to appear on the screen, speaking negatively about Coppola's old films, which are now highly regarded. According to the trailer for Metropolis, Andrew Saris allegedly called The Godfather a "sloppy, selfish movie" that "doesn't know what it wants to be." Pauline Kael was credited with assessing the film as "bizarre".
Vincent Canby and Rex Reed were "entrusted" to speak about Apocalypse Now. The former allegedly called it "empty at the core," and the latter called it "an ep.