![]() ![]() Thank you for visiting! If you’d like to support our attempts to make a non-clickbaity movie website:įollow Film Stories on Twitter here, and on Facebook here.īuy our Film Stories and Film Junior print magazines here. We’ll bring you more on this one as we hear it. ![]() The filmmaker part-funded The Rain People, Apocalypse Now and One From The Heart, and entirely financed Youth Without Youth and Twixt. Of course, the stakes this time are significantly higher, but you have to admire the man’s commitment to his art. The self-financing gambit is certainly a bold move from Coppola, who has self-funded projects before. The film is based on on the fall of a civilisation, with the film’s logline stating: ‘The fate of Rome haunts a modern world unable to solve its own social problems in this epic story of political ambition, genius, and conflicted love.’” Megalopolis boasts a mightily impressive cast and it looks like there’ll be some dramatic material for them to get their teeth into too. The announcement of LaBeouf’s casting comes hot on the heels of the actor defending himself against troubling claims from Booksmart director, Olivia Wilde as she publicises her upcoming film, Don’t Worry Darling, from which LaBeouf was reportedly fired. Goliath, The Witch), Kyle Owens, Austen Rydell and Billie Lourd (Booksmart. Shire is Coppola’s sister and Schwartzman his nephew, so as with several of his other films, the project is now something of a family affair. Logline: Growing up is hard, especially when youre raising your parents. Now though, a host of other names have joined the fray, including Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Shia LaBeouf, Grace VanderWaal, Kathryn Hunter and James Remar. Take a director who hasn’t worked – at least in terms of directing a new film – for a decade, a wildly ambitious project and a budget that would make most studio executives flinch, especially coming from a filmmaker whose tastes have never been commercially inclined, and you had all the makings of a film that will never see production.įast forward to the present and the project now boasts the kind of cast that is making it a must-watch movie, which hopefully will be the case given that the legendary filmmaker is bankrolling the lion’s share of the financing out of his own pocket.Īubrey Plaza recently joined an exciting ensemble that features Adam Driver, Game Of Thrones’ Nathalie Emmanuel, Forest Whitaker, Laurence Fishburne and Jon Voight. Shiraki is represented by APA, Rain Management Group and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham.More names have joined the swelling ranks of Francis Ford Coppola’s dream project as it moves closer to production.Īs the years have rolled by, Francis Ford Coppola’s planned movie Megalopolis had begun to look increasingly like one of those passion projects that would never get made. Wilde’s debut film Booksmart was a critical darling and won an Independent Spirit Award. Porter is repped by CAA, Industry entertainment and Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson. Character details are being kept under wraps beyond the logline, but Pugh will lead the cast. Lady Bird, and Booksmart, it is time to take a look back and see how we arrived at. Union is represented by CAA, Range Media Partners and Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson. To prove their maturity and preparedness for high school. Porter and Shiraki will also executive produce. Union will produce “To Be Real,” and Kian Gass from I’ll Have Another will executive produce. Next month, Porter could win his second Emmy as Pray Tell for the final season of “Pose,” and he will soon be seen in Amazon’s “Cinderella” as the Fab G. Porter’s “What If?” is also teen-focused, but on the drama side. Johnson’s “All Boys Aren’t Blue” under the company’s first-look deal with Sony Pictures Television, as well as developing “New Money,” a half-hour comedy executive produced by Union, Jemele Hill and Kelley Carter at Showtime. Union’s I’ll Have Another has been busy, developing among other projects books like Tamara Winfrey-Harris’ “The Sisters Are Alright” and George M. Logline: A psychological thriller about a 1950s housewife whose reality begins to crack, revealing a disturbing truth underneath. ![]()
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