Francis Ford Coppola Says His Dystopian Epic ‘Megalopolis’ Is a “Vision of Hope”

The costly personal film of the director had its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday night. 
 
Francis Ford Coppola on the dystopic sci-fi film genre he explored in Megalopolis is his idea of a better world. 
 
‘It’s a roman epic, what can I say? It’s a dive into a world that exists more than it should,’ Coppola said to a Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday night while presenting the North American premiere of his expensive obsession. 
 
He credited Adam Driver’s Cesar who wants to build a new ideal city in New York City as the basis for Megalopolis. “There is always the dream of people who are great and are capable of facing all the tasks that they have to create a beautiful world for ourselves and for generations of children It is hopeful movie,” Coppola said. 
 
Megalopolis in which Coppola at Cannes says he had complete freedom to create whatever he wanted took a world premiere in Cannes and critics are discussing an audacious masterpiece that Coppola has made, and some are wondering whether it actually exists because few are falling in the middle. 
 
Marketing of the movie called Megalopolis has produced its own melodrama: the first trailer of the sci-fi epic was removed by Lionsgate on Aug. 21 st after one day after it became clear that the quotations from the film critics cited in the teaser were fake. After this the studio put out a new trailer for the film stripping it of anyone critics quotes. 
 
Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza and Shia LaBeouf also lead the cast of an opus on the story of the Roman Empire in present-day New York, at the precipice of an apocalypse. Describing the film, which is a political drama, sci-fi, love movie and in some doses a comedy, the director said that the movie was what Coppola took from historical Rome and the New York of today. 
 
But Coppola did not stay true to characters and events to the extent, where he did not create something original. “You need to tell me where you got that from if you said what about that nutty thing, or that weird thing I can tell you I didn’t make it up,” he said. 
 
Canadian Toronto Film Festival remains open until September 15.