Megalopolis is a lot of movie. To be precise, it’s 40 years worth of movie. Francis Ford Coppola first dreamed up the idea for the sci-fi epic in 1977, before seriously starting to develop it in the 1980s. It was, as Coppola described, less of a fully formed script than a series of ideas — a movie comprised of notebooks filled with thoughts and a vague ambition of “a Roman epic set in a contemporary New York.”
