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The psychological toll of a lifetime spent listening to others. Release Outlook

The plot centers on the titanic struggle between Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver), a visionary artist with the ability to stop time, and Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), a powerful but regressive political figure. Catilina dreams of demolishing large swaths of the decaying city to build his utopian project, while Cicero fights to preserve the old order. The story unfolds amid the imminent collapse of a city-empire crumbling under the weight of its own dark secrets.

Coppola filled the rest of his neo-Roman world with an array of seasoned actors, deliberate wild cards, and Hollywood veterans playing highly stylized, chaotic characters. casting 2 con francis ford coppula upd

LaBeouf plays a chaotic, populist antagonist who weaponizes the anger of the mob. Coppola purposely cast the controversial actor to bring real, unpredictable energy to the set.

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Coppola’s sister—famous for her roles in The Godfather and Rocky —appears as Cesar's mother.

Following Megalopolis , Coppola is moving forward with a musical adaptation of Edith Wharton’s 1922 novel, Glimpses of the Moon . The story unfolds amid the imminent collapse of

Coppola’s approach to Megalopolis drew from his “post-professional” experimental period, a creative phase he entered after deciding he would no longer work as a conventional Hollywood director. During this period, he sought to relearn cinema from its fundamentals, and his collaboration with cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. proved particularly fruitful. Malaimare, whom Coppola discovered while he was still a film student in Romania, became his most frequent behind-the-camera collaborator on this cycle of experimental works.