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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Michael Sun

Forty years and $120m later: Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis to debut at Cannes

Francis Ford Coppola pictured at the 2022 Oscars in Los Angeles. His self-financed epic Megalopolis will finally debut at Cannes film festival in May.
Francis Ford Coppola pictured at the 2022 Oscars in Los Angeles. His self-financed epic Megalopolis will finally debut at Cannes film festival in May. Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

After months shrouded in controversy – and 40 years in the making – Francis Ford Coppola’s feature Megalopolis will debut at Cannes film festival in May.

The film, a passion project, which the Godfather and Apocalypse Now director has funded with $120m of his own money, has been in development since 1983 when Coppola wrote the first version of the screenplay.

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