‘Megalopolis’ crew members reveal bts mess

[nutella_forever]

Co-producer's response to the on-set behavior

“I have known and worked with Francis and his family for over 35 years. As one of the first assistant directors and an executive producer on his new epic, Megalopolis, I helped oversee and advise the production and ran the second…
- Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) May 14, 2024
According to The guardian,

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[silverstarry]

[deerlike]

There is going to be a Burden of Dreams-esque documentary about this whole debacle, I just know it.

[curdlesnoots]

Well the whole behind the scenes was filmed by Mike Figgis for a documentary so you may get your wish haha.

Edit: I should’ve scrolled down. ONtD doesn’t read scroll.

[nutella_forever]

Some of the tweets I’ve seen highlight the parts of the article about him smoking weed inside his trailer while everyone was waiting or him not having a clear direction and not accepting advices, I didn’t add all of it because I didn’t want the post to be too long and I focused on the worst part, the sexual harassment

Behind the scenes documentary of Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis' (2024) is gonna hit like crack. pic.twitter.com/ijgLAzQ3p4
- DepressedBergman (@DannyDrinksWine) May 14, 2024

[deerlike]

Mike Figgis has been filming the making of ‘Megalopolis’ for a documentary.
- Richard Kovitch (@RKovitch_) May 14, 2024

My instincts were right; I'll watch this instead.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Reading stuff like this, I’m not surprised at all why some directors don’t get funding. Film twitter will cry about the cinema “dying” but will completely blind themselves and/or hand waves the obvious self-made issues standing in the way of these legendary directors.

With this context seeing old directors like get bitter about MCU and big movies + getting immediate funding but lol like say what you will those movies get shit done on time and come with a plan. Even Marty will ask for astronomical budgets but lol he comes with a plan and finishes!

[swoon_song]

Tbh Marty also frontloads his films' budget with money for his muses like Leo and DeNiro. I was talking about this with a friend yesterday. Meanwhile Denis and Nolan are cheaper than Marty, BUT, they push for their films to be released in theaters because they know that their stars need those residuals.

I happen to think that some movies have a bloated budget but a lot of us hand wave why some movies and directors are cheaper than others.

[picturemegone]

So fucking gross. He should've stayed retired.

[helliosx]

300 rewrites? For a movie conceived in the 70s? 400 pages of script written in the early 80s?

IDK if you can't edit your shit down to perfection within 40 years, then maybe you shouldn't be making this movie. Just saying.

And like I'd get lack of experience, but this is a successful film maker, he should know by now what works and what doesn't. I understand making some changes based on the actors cast, but this is ridiculous.