Aubrey Plaza Joins Francis Ford Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS

Aubrey Plaza has joined the ensemble cast of director Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project Megalopolis, which he;d deep in development on. Plaza joins Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, and Laurence Fishburne.

Coppola’s film tells the story of an architect dreaming of a utopian version of New York City in the near future and his battle with the conservative mayor, who has other ideas about the city. Contained within the epic is a myriad of storylines and characters. “The fate of Rome haunts a modern world unable to solve its own social problems in this epic story of political ambition.”

Coppola also described the film as “a love story. A woman is divided between loyalties to two men. But not only two men. Each man comes with a philosophical principle. One is her father who raised her, who taught her Latin on his lap and is devoted to a much more classical view of society, the Marcus Aurelius kind of view. The other one, who is the lover, is the enemy of the father but is dedicated to a much more progressive ‘Let’s leap into the future, let’s leap over all of this garbage that has contaminated humanity for 10,000 years. Let’s find what we really are, which are an enlightened, friendly, joyous species.’”

Coppola independently finances the film, which will be just under $100 million, and production begins this fall. Coppola has been working on this film for a very long time and the fact that he’s independently financing the film tells you how passionate he is about it.

I hope this inspires his long-time friend George Lucas to start making movies again. I’d love to see Lucas make the kind of movies that he was making before Star Wars took over his life.

Anyway, yeah! Aubrey Plaza is in the movie, and she’s going to be great!

Source: Deadline