Francis Ford Coppola announces that it will come up with a new version of the movie that made it lose a fortune last year

Francis Ford Coppola plans to relaunch “Megalopolis”, the film in which he invested $ 120 million in his personal wealth and hoped to crowding his legendary career. But the opposite came out, as Indiewire recalls.

The 86-year-old director has reassembled some of his best-known films in the past Apocalypse Now. Soon, and Megalopolis He will be revisited in the mounting room, the coppola suggesting that his epic – “awarded” at the Golden Raspberry – will be “strange” in the reassembled version.

“It was initially [și mai] Strange, “Coppola said during a new projection in New Jersey of the feature film last year.” The film belongs to me, I can do whatever I want with it, “he said with reference to the freedom he has because he financed the production on his own.

According to him, the new version will include dreaming sequences previously removed from the feature film that lasted two and 18 minutes in the initial version. Coppola explained to the public that he had cut certain sequences in the final version “because people already said the movie is too strange.”

Coppola lost over $ 100 million with his soul movie

Megalopolis It has in the lead role Adam Driver, who plays the architect Cesar Catilina, who is trying to build a utopian city while facing Mayor Franklyn Cicero (played by Giancarlo Esseto). Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne and Aubrey Plaza also played in the film presented for the first year at the Cannes International Film Festival.

But the reviews for MegalopolisCoppola's soul project that he spoke for the first time for decades ago, were mixed, and his promotion campaign was marked by a huge scandal.

Monday later, when the film eventually appeared in theaters, a major “firecracker” turned out. According to the data of the Box Office Mojo specialty site, the total receipts of Megalopolis only $ 14.3 million amounted to the world.

Given that the cinema rooms usually keep half of the receipts, this means that the legendary director has lost around $ 113 million because of the movie.

Coppola was not beaten in terms of “Megalopolis”

Although the film was released almost a year ago in the cinema rooms, Coppola is now on tour to design Megalopolis in different US cities. The tour is called “An evening with Francis Ford Coppola and Megalopolis“, And the director will present him personally in six American cities.

After the screening of the film, Coppola will participate in a discussion with the public on the topic “How we can change our future”.

The tournament will mark the first return of the film in front of the public under the conditions in which Megalopolis It has not yet been launched on any streaming platform.

“That's how you need to be seen Megalopolis: In a large space, along with a lot, and followed by intense interactive discussions about the future, “Coppola said in comments for The Hollywood Reporter.

Making the film Megalopolis has been documented in Megadoca documentary that will premiere at this year's edition of the Venice International Film Festival, which will take place between August 27 and September 6.

The documentary is described as a serious look at the controversial and complicated production of the film Megalopolis.