Sofia Coppola reveals details about her canceled Apple+ TV show (Miss Flo was to star!)

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Sofia Coppola Thought Apple 'Had Endless Resources.' Then the Studio 'Pulled Our Funding' on TV Series With Florence Pugh: 'It's a Real Drag' https://t.co/5bUrNjR3Im
- Variety (@Variety) January 22, 2024
Sofia Coppola is revealing details about her Apple+ TV show that was not to be. Greenlit in 2020 and canceled the next year, it was based on Edith

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[tanglespiders]

ARGH Undine Spragg is one of my favorite literary narcissists.

[mayjailer]

i was wondering what happened to this! i still have to read the novel, but i was looking forward to it.

[j3]

Seems kind of shitty since there was money available for that weird modern take on The Buccaneers.

[genbu_no_miko24]

I need Sofia to talk with Greta Gerwig a bit because Greta for a female director has done extremely well for herself as someone that comes from nothing.

Granted Greta's material is a bit more commercial and acessible than Sofia's stuff which I always feel is potentially why her projects get sidestepped in addition to being a female director.

[bellwetherr]

but greta has had noah in her corner for like a decade, she very much does not come from nothing when it comes to her directing career lol

[genbu_no_miko24]

Yeah but Noah Baumbach isn't a big power-player in Hollywood, maybe more in the indie scene. She's arguably bigger and more well-known than him. The power-balance shifted.

Greta even strikes me more as ambitious than him cause his films really are more indie small-scale and personal than hers.

But regardless she clearly hustles cause nothing helps having a door open if you're not gonna move it yourself. She comes from nothing cause Noah wasn't there in the beginning, she had start somewhere with no guarantee which happens before he comes into the picture.

[bellwetherr]

the majority of greta's films have been indie, tbf, and she gained a ton of cred by working with him on greenberg and he's been involved in most of her projects since

i do think she has aspirations beyond baumbach and indie film but their relationship has absolutely helped her lmao

her one directorial project before him was a $15K dollar indie film with joe swanberg that no one saw

[moddchicc]

I've been a fan of Sofia since high school, but her comments on Scarlett Johansson's casting in Lost in Translation a couple months ago really soured on me.

[bellwetherr]

oh what did she say??

[moddchicc]

Rolling Stone did a 20th anniversary piece on the movie during the 'Priscilla' press tour where they interviewed Sofia. When the reporter brought up Scarlett still being a teenager during filming, Sofia just said that Scarlett was "really mature for 17" and she didn't feel weird casting her because she was "close to Scarlett's age back then" [she was actually 31 at the time]. Near the end of the article she admitted she ignores the criticism regarding the casting and age difference between Bill and Scarlett, and when the reporter even brought up the famous opening shot, Sofia was just like, "🤷 I guess I couldn't shoot that today." Basically 0 growth or perspective in the past two decades, even just retrospectively. It's really disappointing and frustrating, especially since she went through the effort to hire a 24 year old for 'Priscilla' and Kirsten Dunst has always credited Sofia for protecting her when they worked on The Virgin Suicides. It's strange she had no problem convincing a teen girl to shoot that ass close-up even though

[bellwetherr]

jesus

i'm no fan of scarjo but i do think sofia views her much the same as most men in hollywood do because of her body and sex appeal. so many ppl took advantage of scarjo ~looking older or having a ~more mature body in a lot of her early roles