2024 was a strange year for movies, from the Wicked juggernaut to the strange case of Emilia Perez. But there was nothing quite like Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, a self-funded dystopian fever dream apparently decades in the making. It starred Adam Driver as a self-obsessed architect with the ability to stop time, but that’s only scratching the surface of a tale that featured a character named Wow Platinum and a moment that necessitated a live actor in the theater.
Despite all the hype, reviews were thoroughly mixed, and Megalopolis’ final box office numbers placed it firmly in flop territory. But the story is somehow not over yet.
