Apocalypse Now director Francis Ford Coppola’s sci-fi passion project Megalopolis continues to be one of Hollywood’s biggest train wrecks. The latest derailment was a trailer that had to be pulled for fabricating quotes. It’s now being reported that, surprise, the trailer quotes were generated by AI.
Where to begin with Megalopolis? The short version is that it’s a heady but big-budget art house movie with an eclectic but all-star cast led by Adam Driver about an architect facing an existential crisis in a futuristic city. Coppola has apparently wanted to make it for decades, and even sold part of his winery to finance the $US120 million budget. Its divided critics with a roughly 50 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and Coppola has been accused of inappropriate behavior on the set, including a video showing him kissing female extras .
Did they just straight up fabricate that Pauline Kael quote? I’m reading her review and I don’t see it, also she loved the movie lol https://t.co/rd6FFJJikX https://t.co/5WVpqnczzP — carz (@Carzonfye) August 21, 2024 Then this week a trailer came out that included famous movie critics panning various past films of Coppola’s like Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
“Diminished by its artsiness,” read a quote attributed to Pauline Kael about The Godfather for The New Yorker that flashes onscreen, trying to make the point that any recent negative press around Megalopolis is similarly mistaken. The only problem was that Kael never wrote it. Variet.