Francis Coppola & Adam Driver On “The Death Of Journalism & The Death Of The Hollywood Studio System”; How ‘Megalopolis’ Reception Might Evolve Like ‘Apocalypse Now’ Did

EXCLUSIVE : In an interview as crackling with ideas as their new film Megalopolis , director Francis Coppola and Adam Driver discuss the power of films whose meaning changes in the minds of moviegoers in multiple viewings over time. The closest comp to Megalopolis is probably Coppola’s Apocalypse Now . Now a classic, that Heart of Darkness adaptation wrapped in the chaotic backdrop of Vietnam, was in its earliest showings considered as much a hot mess of radical ideas and imagery as Megalopolis . Coppola had Megalopolis close to a production start but called it off after 9/11. He continued to shoot second unit footage, including some shots of the smoldering World Trade Center wreckage. He reveals here that some of that imagery made it into Megalopolis for posterity sake, but Coppola said there was nothing that would bring pain to survivors of the worst attack on American soil. Watch them address that and much more — like “the death of journalism and the death of the Hollywood studio system,” as Coppola puts it — in an interview we did at TIFF. Lionsgate releases the film tomorrow.

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