{"id":9736,"date":"2019-04-05T21:45:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T04:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9736"},"modified":"2019-04-13T21:52:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T04:52:28","slug":"megalopolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/05\/megalopolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Megalopolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/04\/francis-ford-coppola-megalopolis-directing-this-year-1202588167\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from Deadline<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Francis Ford Coppola Ready To Make \u2018Megalopolis\u2019 And Is Eyeing\u00a0Cast<\/h1>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/mikefleming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Fleming Jr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tFco_rhP078\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: On the eve of his 80th birthday, <a id=\"auto-tag_francis-ford-coppola\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/francis-ford-coppola\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-tag=\"francis-ford-coppola\">Francis Ford Coppola<\/a> is ready to embark on one of his dream projects. He plans to direct <em><a id=\"auto-tag_megalopolis\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/megalopolis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-tag=\"megalopolis\">Megalopolis<\/a><\/em>, a sprawling film as ambitious as <em>Apocalypse Now<\/em>, that he has been plotting for many years. Coppola revealed this to me today. He has his script, and he has begun speaking informally to potential stars. I\u2019ve heard Jude Law\u2019s name among those who might potentially be in the movie. I have much to report about Coppola\u2019s dream project, and I got to view some of the second unit footage he shot after announcing the project in Cannes, before the terror attacks of 9\/11 \u2014 the film is set in New York and is an architect\u2019s attempt to create a utopia in the city, combated by the mayor \u2014 ground progress on the film to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo yes, I plan this year to begin my longstanding ambition to make a major work utilizing all I have learned during my long career, beginning at age 16 doing theater, and that will be an epic on a grand scale, which I\u2019ve titled <em>Megalopolis<\/em>,\u201d Coppola told me today. \u201cIt is unusual; it will be a production on a grand scale with a large cast. It makes use of all of my years of trying films in different styles and types culminating in what I think is my own voice and aspiration. It is not within the mainstream of what is produced now, but I am intending and wishing and in fact encouraged, to begin production this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Coppola has locked <em>Apocalypse Now: Final Cut<\/em>, a version of the film that most pleases the storied director, and which will premiere at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy having a record of all old cuts on Betamax, I was able to see what steps had been made toward the final version released,\u201d he said. \u201cInteresting, even though I\u2019ve had \u2018final cut\u2019 since <em>Godfather<\/em>\u2018s success, I always tried to be reasonable about ideas or suggestions made by the \u2018finance\u2019 partners, distributors or studios. However, their unanimous comment of \u2018too long\u2019 often led to trimming things out, whereas in retrospect the solution can often be to put more in. Also changes often beget other changes and you don\u2019t quite realize then the road you are following.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/04\/francis-ford-coppola-megalopolis-directing-this-year-1202588167\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Deadline<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Deadline Francis Ford Coppola Ready To Make \u2018Megalopolis\u2019 And Is Eyeing\u00a0Cast By Mike Fleming Jr EXCLUSIVE: On the eve of his 80th birthday, Francis Ford Coppola is ready to embark on one of his dream projects. He plans to direct Megalopolis, a sprawling film as ambitious as Apocalypse Now, that he has been plotting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}