Megalopolis: Francis Ford Coppola Rounds Out Cast With 5 New Additions
Megalopolis: Francis Ford Coppola Rounds Out Cast With 5 New Additions
According to Deadline, Oscar-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has finally finished the casting process for his long-in-development epic drama Megalopolis.
Production is expected to begin filming this fall in Georgia. Rounding out the all-star cast are Dustin Hoffman (The Graduate), Isabelle Kusman (Licorice Pizza), D.B. Sweeney (Gardens of Stone), Chloe Fineman (Saturday Night Live), and newcomer Bailey Ives.
They will be joining Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Aubrey Plaza, Talia Shire, Shia LaBeouf, Jason Schwartzman, Grace Vanderwaal, Kathryn Hunter, and James Remar.
Megapolis has been Coppola’s passion project since the 1980s. Set in modern-day America, it reportedly centers around the aftermath of a devastating disaster, where an architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia. The 82-year-old filmmaker has confirmed that the story will get to explore timely themes while also featuring Roman epic influences.
“The concept of the film is a Roman epic, in the traditional Cecile B. DeMille or Ben-Hur way, but told as a modern counterpart focusing on America,” Coppola previously explained. “It’s based on The Catiline Conspiracy, which comes to us from ancient Rome. This was a famous duel between a patrician, Catiline, and that part will be played by Oscar Isaac, and the famous Cicero, who will be Forest Whitaker. He is now the beleaguered mayor of New York during a financial crisis, close to the one that Mayor Dinkins had. This story takes place in a new Rome, a Roman epic set in modern times. The time set is not a specific year in modern New York, it’s an impression of modern New York, which I call New Rome.”
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