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It has not been an easy run for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. Four decades in the making; $120m in the red; its final arrival next month clouded by several scandals. There was the promotional campaign swiftly buried when it transpired that made-up quotes had been used in the trailer, and reports of a suspiciously high turnover in crew members, which Cappola called “untrue”. Then came the leaked footage of the director kissing female extras on set ahead of shooting a bacchanalian nightclub scene. (He claimed that he knew the “young women I kissed on the cheek”.)
