Guillermo Del Toro, Spike Lee and more react to Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis

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Guillermo Del Toro, Spike Lee and more react to Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis

megalopolis, The godfather Director Ford Coppola’s latest movie is arguably his most ambitious by far. The self-funded science fiction film tells the story of a future in which an attempt is made to transform an after-disaster New York City into a utopia. It is also something of a Roman epic, with its main characters bearing names like Cesar Catalina, Mayor Franklyn Cicero and Hamilton Crassus III. The movie’s cast is as sprawling as his vision, and includes Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, Laurence Fishburne and Grace VanderWaal.

Screen Rant Is excited to share Megalopolis Reactions from some of today’s top directors, including Guillermo del Toro and Spike Jonze. Screen Rants Megalopolis Reviewers favorably called the film an “experimental fever dream” and, judging by the quotes below, that unabashed display of Coppola’s vision won the filmmakers over. Take a look and remember…Megalopolis is in theaters now.

Spike Lee: My brother continues to amaze me and his fearlessness, how he will do whatever he has to do to get it done. Bottom line.

Spike Jonze: I’m still smiling from it. Radical. I have never seen anything like this before. I remember hearing about it, but I could never imagine what it came to be. There was so much I loved about it, but the tone was the thing that got most under my skin. It was funny and alive and electric and made the world and ideas so alive. The performances Francis created with the actors and the details of the world…I laughed out loud the whole time. The game and surrealism and joy of creativity. It’s unbelievable that he thought and worked on it for as long as he did, but it still felt like today, about now and the world we both live in and care about.

Guillermo del Toro: Francis is still the same bold, fearless, inventive filmmaker he was in his 20s. I was swept by Megalopolis!

Steven Soderbergh: WOW! This may be the craziest thing ever shot on American soil. Certainly, one of the most sustained acts of pure imagination I’ve ever seen. I dreamed about it all night – it was inspiring!

Should you see Megalopolis?

Many science fiction movies have told gripping stories about the future of humanity, but Francis Ford Coppola has clearly done so in a way that breaks new ground. With time-stopping powers, callbacks to Roman history, and a New York City setting, the movie is a blend of past and future that has all the ingredients to captivate science-fiction fans. Even the look of the movie promises to bring viewers into a world unlike any they have seen before.

aside, Megalopolis It will be worth seeing for some as a fascinating result of over two decades of time and effort. Coppola’s epic was in development for so long that Megalopolis Includes footage of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, captured by the second camera team at Ground Zero. Coppola reportedly had the idea for the movie in the 1970s while filming Apocalypse nowAnd began writing the screenplay in the 1980s – for context, the idea for Megalopolis was conceived years before the movie’s 40-year-old leading man. This is a movie about the future that was first imagined almost half a century ago, providing a perspective that makes it completely unique.

For those interested in films as art and the people who make them, Coppola’s latest is also a look into the mind of someone who has been a master of their craft for so long that they are more than comfortable pushing boundaries. Coppola throws it all at the wall with moments like Megalopolis Interactive scene, giving audiences an experience they won’t have in any major studio release in the near future. The movie may be an unconventional watch, but it’s a testament to Coppola’s ability and status as a filmmaking legend, and, as quoted above, an important watch for those ready to be inspired.

Megalopolis is out in theaters now.

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