No wonder Coppola had to pay for Megalopolis with his own money

Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login It’s hard to recall a film being greeted with more perplexity than Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis . A production that has been 40 years in gestation, cost US$120 million ($174 million), and failed to attract support from the major studios, it’s like no movie ever made.

As the director is one of Hollywood’s all-time greats it seemed incredible that Coppola had to pay for it with his own money – but after sitting through 138 minutes of this exhausting, incoherent pageant, the whole thing felt more confusing than ever. What was Coppola thinking? Hell, what was he smoking ? Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Follow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.

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