Hardly any new film is as hotly anticipated this year as Megalopolis. The upcoming work by The Godfather and Apocalypse Now director Francis Ford Coppola was in the planning stages for decades and has finally been realized. After its world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Megalopolis will finally be released in German cinemas in September.
Now you can new trailer which, in addition to the extraordinary sci-fi images, also deals with negative press from Coppola’s past.
Here is the new Megalopolis trailer:
Megalopolis – Trailer 2 (English) HD
In the new Megalopolis trailer, Francis Ford Coppola is celebrated as a misunderstood genius
At the beginning of the new preview, Matrix star Laurence Fishburne appears as the narrator, telling of misunderstood geniuses who remain unrecognized for a long time. Negative press quotes from Coppola’s past on films such as The Godfather or Bram Stoker’s Dracula are shown. With its mix of megalomania and tongue-in-cheek humor, the new Megalopolis trailer seems to already set the tone for the director’s new sci-fi film.
In the plot of Megalopolis, the architect Cesar (Adam Driver) wants to build a rebuild destroyed citywhich resembles a dystopian New York. Standing in the way of his plans is Mayor Franklyn (Giancarlo Esposito). The situation becomes even more complicated because of Cesar’s great love Julia (Nathalie Emmanuel), the daughter of the corrupt politician.
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Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel in Megalopolis
When will the sci-fi epic Megalopolis be released in cinemas?
Coppola’s new film will be released in Germany from 26 September 2024 in the cinema. Then you can see the master director’s life’s work for yourself. Moviepilot editor-in-chief Jenny Jecke has already seen the film in Cannes and writes about it, among other things:
Megalopolis now feels like a sequel to the Trump years, an awakening to a much darker, disturbing déjà vu. If Project X met Civil War, it would look nothing like a Francis Ford Coppola film. Nothing looks like Megalopolis. But it is a small step towards understanding this great film.