Francis Ford Coppola’s Brand New High-Budget Flop Gets an Unexpected Rating
Yet it’s still unlikely to affect the viewers’ opinion.
Francis Ford Coppola’s epic sci-fi drama Megalopolis has been long-awaited by the whole industry and completely failed during its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, but one big update might bring the controversial movie a bigger audience when it’s finally released this fall.
According to the most recent news, Megalopolis is “rated R for sexual content, nudity, drug use, language and some violence” by MPAA. This comes as a new intriguing detail nobody has unveiled before, yet it wasn’t a big surprise either given that Coppola’s films aren’t strangers to being marked as explicit ones.
Featuring a star-packed cast that includes Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza and Shia LaBeouf, Megalopolis follows Driver’s Cesar Catilina, a bright architect who comes up with an ambitious plan to transform a city called New Rome into a sustainable utopia.
Catalina’s idea is met with a fierce rejection from corrupt Mayor Franklyn Cicero, portrayed by Giancarlo Esposito, while Cicero’s daughter Julia has no other option but to choose a side, giving her support to her father or to Catalina, her love interest.
Having spent more than a decade in development, Megalopolis was expected like no other movie of this year, especially since Coppola put an incredible budget of $120 million into his brand new flick.
To everyone’s surprise, the premiere at the Cannes Film Festival wasn’t a start of the movie’s stunning success ahead of its theatrical release, but rather a sinister omen for Megalopolis’s future in cinemas.
Most of the critics were left pretty much disappointed by Coppola’s epic journey, stating that there’s nothing behind the movie’s beautiful frames. Megalopolis is currently holding an average score of 53% from professionals on Rotten Tomatoes while the audience’s reviews will be unveiled as soon as the film reaches the theaters.
Megalopolis will hit the cinemas worldwide on September 27.