Forty years and $120m later: Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis to debut at Cannes

Forty years and $120m later: Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis to debut at Cannes

Godfather director’s self-financed passion project, starring Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza and Dustin Hoffman, will show at the film festival in May

After months shrouded in controversy – and 40 years in the making – Francis Ford Coppola’s feature Megalopolis will debut at Cannes film festival in May.

The film, a passion project, which the Godfather and Apocalypse Now director has funded with $120m of his own money, has been in development since 1983 when Coppola wrote the first version of the screenplay.

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