Shia LaBeouf Joins Francis Ford Coppola’s Epic Feature Film MEGALOPOLIS
Director Francis Ford Coppola has cast Shia LaBeouf in his $100 million self-financed feature epic Megalopolis. LaBeouf has been in the news a lot lately, but this doesn’t have to do with any of the drama in his life. This is his next film gig, and production is slated to begin this fall.
The actor will join an already impressive ensemble cast that includes Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Aubrey Plaza, Jason Schwartzman, Laurence Fishburne, Grace VanderWaal, Kathryn Hunter, James Remar, and Talia Shire.
The 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.’”
Are you looking forward to seeing Coppola bring his long-time dream project to life?
Source: Variety