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Francis Ford Coppola<\/figcaption>photo: Emma McIntyre (Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nCineastes jumped for joy when Francis Ford Coppola announced his intentions to sell his multi-million dollar winery to fund his long-gestating passion project, Megalopolis<\/em><\/span>. But, unfortunately, there comes a time in every Francis Ford Coppola production when it becomes apparent that this is still a Francis Ford Coppola production. Much like Apocalypse Now<\/em><\/span>, The Cotton Club<\/em><\/span>, One From The Heart<\/em><\/span>and Bram Stoker’s Dracula<\/em><\/span>Coppola’s ambition is bumping up against the realities of making movies with other living, breathing people. <\/p>\nHalfway through production, Megalopolis<\/em> is currently in turmoil, per In early December, The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/span>. Coppola reportedly fired most of his visual effects team, with the rest resigning shortly after. If that wasn’t bad enough for a movie that was to be shot with the same high-tech greenscreen technology used on The Mandalorian<\/em><\/span>production designer Beth Mickle and supervising art director David Scott have also booked a ticket to leave Megalopolis<\/em>. Sources told The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> that \u201cbeing on the set is madness.\u201d<\/p>\napparently, that Mandalorian<\/em> volume stage is pretty expensive, pushing the already mega-priced movie over budget. Coppola sunk $120 million of his own money into this thing, so the remaining crew is looking into more traditional greenscreen techniques to finish the film. \u201cThere’s no good answer here,\u201d a production executive told The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. \u201c[Coppola] is going to spend a lot more money than he intended. You can imagine how much he’s already got invested. It would be a very bitter pill not to finish it.\u201d<\/p>\nNone of these woes are too surprising, though. Coppola fired his visual effects supervisor on Bram Stoker’s Dracula<\/em>, The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> notes. Yet, the effects in Dracula<\/em> are among the film’s most striking and impressive elements. Coppola also famously sent his cast into the heart of darkness on the set of Apocalypse Now<\/em>. The shoot, which took place in the Philippines, had a litany of problems, including severe weather, grave robbers bringing real corpses to set, and Martin Sheen suffering a near-fatal heart attack. Coppola’s wife, Elanor, captured the whole thing in the documentary Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse<\/em>which says everything one needs to know about the three-year struggle to get that on the screen.<\/p>\nIt remains to be seen whether Coppola will deliver another masterpiece. He hasn’t released a feature since 2011’s Twixt<\/em><\/span>but it would be disappointing if his latest and potentially final film fell apart at the halfway mark. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Francis Ford Coppolaphoto: Emma McIntyre (Getty Images) Cineastes jumped for joy when Francis Ford Coppola announced his intentions to sell his multi-million dollar winery to fund his long-gestating passion project, Megalopolis. But, unfortunately, there comes a time in every Francis Ford Coppola production when it becomes apparent that this is still a Francis Ford Coppola …<\/p>\n
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