EXCLUSIVE: Catch the first trailer for Megadoc, the making-of-Megalopolis documentary that has its world premiere coming up at the Venice Film Festival.
The film was acquired for release by Utopia, and follows from first steps the making of Francis Coppola‘s provocative vision of the parallels between the fall of Rome with the current seismic shakeups taking place in today’s world. The docu is done in the spirit of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, the chronicle of Coppola making Apocalypse Now that won two Primetime Emmy Awards in 1992. This one answers the question of how an iconic director like Coppola could spent $120 million of his own money on a film that made its debut at Cannes in 2024, complete with workshop scenes that include myriad stars who came on but fell off a film that took so long to mount.
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Coppola is wrapping up a six-city tour, showing the movie and taking the stage to talk about its complex themes. His hope in all of this is to give Megalopolis a second win in theaters, because at least so far he has declined to make a deal with a streamer because he wants the message to be absorbed on the big screen.
Figgis was Oscar-nominated for Best Director and Screenplay for Leaving Las Vegas, the drama that won the Best Actor Oscar for Coppola’s nephew Nicolas Cage.
Watch the Megadoc trailer above.
