Megalopolis’ First Look Teases a Time-Stopping Journey

At the start of the year, it was claimed that Francis Ford Coppola’s substantial-awaited sci-fi flick Megalopolis may at final see the light-weight of functioning day. That day seems to be pretty rapidly, for the reason that Coppola’s generation banner American Zoetrope made initially-at any time footage of the film that presents an notion of its scope.

In the clip, Adam Driver’s Cesar heads to the roof of a New York skyscraper. Totally terrified out of his thoughts, he sooner or later is productive up the courage to contemplate a phase off the ledge, only to practically plummet to his dying just before shouting, “Time, halt!” Time does in truth stop—along with gravity, it appears, generating it achievable for him to get back once more on his feet and not wind up a pancake. With a snap of his fingers, time resumes just after as soon as a lot more, and Cesar’s awestruck at his personal power—whatever it is.

Megalopolis has been beforehand explained as a sci-fi appreciate tale amongst Cesar and Julia Cicero (Nathalie Emmanuel). Caught in amongst Cesar and her father Frank’s (Giancarlo Esposito) opposing visions for New York, she embarks on a journey to establish out her have path as the two gentlemen continue to fight about the metropolis. Screenings have been getting lately held for studio executives and some push, and impressions have been getting reportedly blended all through the board: some revered how imaginative and “unflinchingly batshit crazy” it was, other men and women assumed it went all about the spot and a quite probably dud at the box workplace.

At time of writing, Megalopolis does not have a North American distributor—Amazon MGM and Apple have every single reportedly demonstrated interest—but it is set to premiere at Cannes on May possibly possibly 17. On the other hand matters shake out, Coppola’s quite pleased of it: the film is committed to his late spouse Eleanor Neil, who passed quite final month, and considers the preview previously pointed out a “gift on her behalf.”

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