Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis has reportedly added Giancarlo Esposito to its ensemble lineup. As per Deadline, the Breaking Unhealthy star has been tapped to play an undisclosed position, in a movie that’s described because the acclaimed director’s ardour challenge that has been many years within the making. The actor started the 12 months on an excellent roll — profitable Greatest Supporting Actor on the Critics Alternative Awards, earlier this month, for his efficiency in Higher Name Saul, and now marks his first event of working with The Godfather filmmaker.
Megalopolis turned heads in late 2021, when information broke that Coppola was trying to finance his personal movie, after a decade-long silence. The report claims that the price range is ready at just below $100 million (about Rs. 816 crore), with the manufacturing being “on schedule and on price range.” This contradicts a report from The Hollywood Reporter, earlier this month, whose sources claimed that the film had “descended into chaos,” and had misplaced its artwork division. Whereas Coppola is not precisely recognized for having the smoothest filming processes, he later contested that report, stating that whereas there certainly was some turnover within the crew, it wasn’t “out of pocket” and that the characterisation was “inaccurate.”
In Megalopolis, Esposito joins a solid of A-list actors together with the likes of Adam Driver (Marriage Story), Forest Whitaker (Arrival), Nathalie Emmanuel (Recreation of Thrones), Jon Voight (Warmth), Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix), Aubrey Plaza (The White Lotus), Shia LaBeouf (Transformers), Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man), and Jason Schwartzman (The French Dispatch). Whereas Coppola first penned the script again within the Nineteen Eighties, it was ultimately shelved in 2001 after 9/11 made the headlines. Plot particulars on Megalopolis are scarce, however it’s described as being set in a post-disaster New York Metropolis, which an architect intends to rebuild as a utopia. In the meantime, Deadline’s report calls it an “epic story of political ambition, genius, and harmful love.”
“There is a sure manner everybody thinks a movie ought to be, and it rubs in opposition to the grain if in case you have one other concept,” Coppola mentioned final 12 months, in reference to Megalopolis, in the course of the fiftieth anniversary of his crime epic, The Godfather. “Individuals may be very unaccepting, however generally the opposite concept represents what’s coming sooner or later. That’s worthy of being thought of.” Backgrounds in Megalopolis have been initially shot utilizing the LED display screen know-how, applied on high-budget tasks reminiscent of The Batman, The Mandalorian, and the recently-axed 1899. Nonetheless, THR famous beforehand that ballooning prices and different challenges urged Coppola to pivot to a inexpensive and extra conventional greenscreen strategy.
Esposito himself has been preserving busy, having not too long ago starred in Netflix’s heist collection Kaleidoscope and reprising his position as Moff Gideon within the Star Wars universe collection, The Mandalorian season 3, which airs March 1 on Disney+ Hotstar.
At the moment, there aren’t any launch particulars for Megalopolis.
