Coppola's "Megalopolis."
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Link to video
"Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman, James Remar, D.B. Sweeney, and Dustin Hoffman. "
An accident destroys a New York City-like metropolis already in decay. Cesar Catilina, an idealist with the power to control time, aims to rebuild the city as a sustainable utopia, while his opposition, corrupt Mayor Franklyn Cicero, remains committed to a regressive status quo. Coming between the opposing men and their visions is Franklyn's socialite daughter, Julia. Tired of the attention and power she was born with, Julia searches for her life's meaning
Did Driver get his ears pinned back???
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Looks like it could be interesting. I kind of like those "dystopian" time tavel type of stories.
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A better word is "lied."
Lionsgate has pulled the trailer for Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" after it was revealed it used fabricated reviews from real critics regarding the filmmaker's former movies.
On Wednesday, the entertainment company apologized and said it recalled the trailer for the upcoming film starring Adam Driver, saying in a statement shared with ABC Audio, "We screwed up."
"Lionsgate is immediately recalling our trailer for Megalopolis," Lionsgate said in a statement shared with ABC Audio. "We offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this inexcusable error in our vetting process."
"We are sorry," Lionsgate added.
Before it was taken down, the trailer began with a voice-over from co-star Laurence Fishburne who intoned, "True genius is often misunderstood."
It then showed bad reviews allegedly earned from Coppola's Oscar-winning epic "The Godfather," claiming the late Village Voice's Andrew Sarris called it "A sloppy, self-indulgent movie."
Coppola's 1979 classic "Apocalypse Now" was also trashed by name, as was 1992's "Bram Stoker's Dracula," the latter purportedly panned by both the late Roger Ebert and veteran reviewer Owen Gleiberman.
Variety discovered that Ebert's alleged diss of that film -- "a triumph of style over substance" -- was lifted from his review of Tim Burton's 1989 blockbuster, "Batman."
Unlike Ebert, Gleiberman is still alive, and he's none too happy, telling Variety in a report, "Even if you're one of those people who don't like critics, we hardly deserve to have words put in our mouths," he said, noting "the whole 'Megalopolis' trailer is built on a false narrative."
