in all Of the utterly depressing things published daily in the Hollywood trade, this has to be one of the worst: “It’s so bad and so sad to watch… This is not how Coppola should have ended his Director’s career.”
This was a response to an early screening of Francis Ford Coppola MegacityA $120 million science fiction epic godfather Directors have been trying for about forty years.The quote comes from an unnamed “studio head” and was published in an article hollywood reporter Positioning the film as one that no one in the industry was willing to put money into because it (allegedly) had no box office potential. While this sentence is the best in journalistic terms, the real highlight comes in the final addendum: “This story has been updated to include: Megacity Will premiere in Cannes. “
shooting. Chaser.
THRThe article doesn’t provide the gender of the studio executive being quoted, but I’m going to go out on a limb here: Sir, what the fuck are you talking about?even though Megacity Adam Driver (yes, he stars) in the two-hour-and-fifteen-minute-long Paper Doll show Coppola fares much worse with. This won’t end his career. If anything, quotes like this signal the end of Hollywood—or at least the great need for a reboot.
Earlier this week, Bilge Ebiri penned a vociferous plea in Vulture magazine, declaring that “without space, Hollywood is doomed.” Megacityes. Matt Zoller-Seitz took a slightly different tack, speaking directly to France from his desk at RogerEbert.com and imploring Cannes Film Festival attendees to cheer the film and save America. The duo They all pointed out that many of Coppola’s films –Dracula played by Bram Stoker, One from the heart— didn’t exactly captivate audiences or critics when it first came out.The latter almost bankrupted him – just after he mortgaged everything he owned to finance the apocalypse nowThe film currently ranks, along with other Coppola films, on the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 best films of all time.
I’d like to make a different plea: Nerds, gather together. We have a long history of crowdfunding and writing letters to prove projects that are rocking Hollywood.Big Joe Trimble has been rescued Star Trek. queer sci-fi, Veronica Mars, the people’s clown– We’ve raised the cash for all of this.The studio doesn’t think so Megacity is bankable; it may not appease any streaming service’s algorithm. who cares. An online petition with enough support could provide a marketing campaign that rivals the multimillion-dollar campaigns Coppola envisioned. Worth a try,