There are few names in Hollywood history bigger than Francis Ford Coppola, the director of Academy Award-winning and critically acclaimed movies like “The Godfather,” “Apocalypse Now,” and “Bram Stoker’s Dracula.”
His new movie, a sci-fi film called “Megalopolis,” hit something of a roadblock this week, after its trailer was released on YouTube. The film is slated to release through Lionsgate on Sept. 27. Usually when I write about a movie, I share a trailer. This time, unfortunately, the trailer is the story…
Here’s a little background on the movie’s path to this point:
The movie is a sci-fi epic and a passion project from Coppola, 85, set in a crumbling metropolis called New Rome. The cast includes Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman.
Coppola reportedly spent $120 million of his own money…
