When Megalopolis was released in 2024, it’s fair to say its reception was divisive. Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-making passion project was a self-indulgent fever dream, less movie than art installation filled with images never seen on the big screen before, and also multiple scenes of Jon Voight sleepily talking about his cock. Some loved it, most hated it, and the film fizzled at the box office, earning just $7 million (and several Razzie Awards). The one thing everyone could agree on was that it was pretty weird, but Coppola recently revealed that it could have been even weirder.
“It was [originally] more weird,” Coppola said while showing Megalopolis in New Jersey as part of a nationwide tour of the film, per World of Reel. Coppola, who received the film’s rights back after Lionsgate pulled it from theaters following its meager box office showing, has been taking Megalopolis across the country in a sort of roadshow tour with LiveNation called “An Evening With Francis Ford Coppola and Megalopolis.” The tour will hit six different cities and include an interactive discussion with the director on the theme of “How to Change Our Future.” And while in New Jersey, Coppola announced that he was already planning a recut.
