> I wouldn’t have been able to make it without standing as I do on the shoulders of G.B. Shaw, Voltaire, Rousseau, Bentham, Mill, Dickens, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Fournier, Morris, Carlyle, Ruskin, Butler, and Wells all rolled into one; with Euripides, Thomas More, Moliere, Pirandello, Shakespeare, Beaumarchais, Swift, Kubrick, Murnau, Goethe, Plato, Aeschylus, Spinoza, Durrell, Ibsen, Abel Gance, Fellini, Visconti, Bergman, Bergson, Hesse, Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Cao Xueqin, Mizoguchi, Tolstoy, McCullough, Moses, and the prophets all thrown in.
An utterly insane quote, I’m so so so so so in.
Mix 'Things to Come' with 'The Fountainhead', add some Caro (Power Broker) with Coppola's touch. Might not be easy to digest but pretty much unmissable.
No but clearly these are key influences. Just like Kwaidan for Dracula for instance. Mr. Coppola has good taste. The Fountainhead is incredible btw ( forget Ayn Rand's 'ideology' but as a film)
The question I need answers to is will Adam Driver be doing an Italian accent in this? No need for one but he might as well continue it and make it a feature of all films he does with legendary filmmakers.
It's a very long filmography with a lot of stinkers, so not really that surprising. But he's also had some of the most historic blank checks ever, so it'd definitely be an interesting series.
They have steered away from problematic directors and you can’t ignore the fact he funded the trial defense and career of a convicted paedophile. And also threatened to blacklist the victim if they didn’t finish working on the film they were assaulted on.
[They've covered a guy who beat his ex-girlfriend](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-24-me-49817-story.html), that's not the reason they haven't covered him
Not sure whether to laugh or cry at this pitch:
*Vanity Fair* has the exclusive first look at the result: **Adam Driver** as the idealistic architect and artist planning to rebuild a city that has fallen to ruins, and **Nathalie Emmanuel** as the socialite daughter of his nemesis, a corrupt mayor (**Giancarlo Esposito**), who likes his municipal kingdom the way it is. In his official logline for the film, Coppola describes Driver’s character as having the “power to stop time,” while Emmanuel’s character is caught between the two, deeply in love with the artist but loyal to her hard-charging father, “forcing her to discover what she truly believes humanity deserves.”
Things to Come fucking rips and if that's his main inspiration I'm so here for it.
Also give me all the plasticy fake-ass backgrounds you want. Realism in CGI is so overrated.
The tendency of people, news outlets and others wishing for this film to crash and burn amazes me.
Let us all collectively wish that a legendary director who pulled over 100 million dollars of his own money to make a film spectacularly fail, while we gush over Deadpool and Wolverine. A film where a character in the title died in a film several years ago.
At least not shit on it until you see it.
I want it to not be true but hard to reconcile the drop between Holy Motors and Annette (which I so wanted to love but couldn’t).
I love Driver for doing it though.
I really love Annette (still in top 10 of 2020s films that I have seen) so can't really relate right there. Found it just as formally exciting as Holy Motors but in a different way slightly. The ghost of Golubeva is as strong as ever in it I thought.
you’re being downvoted but you’re right
jarmusch, mann, coppola, carax, gilliam and maybe ridley have used him as a selling point to sell their long cooking projects.
and mann hasn’t made a good film since collateral 20 years ago
> I wouldn’t have been able to make it without standing as I do on the shoulders of G.B. Shaw, Voltaire, Rousseau, Bentham, Mill, Dickens, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Fournier, Morris, Carlyle, Ruskin, Butler, and Wells all rolled into one; with Euripides, Thomas More, Moliere, Pirandello, Shakespeare, Beaumarchais, Swift, Kubrick, Murnau, Goethe, Plato, Aeschylus, Spinoza, Durrell, Ibsen, Abel Gance, Fellini, Visconti, Bergman, Bergson, Hesse, Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Cao Xueqin, Mizoguchi, Tolstoy, McCullough, Moses, and the prophets all thrown in. An utterly insane quote, I’m so so so so so in.
Coppola confirmed Swiftie
Mf has more influences than I have living relatives
I love how he lists 20th century film directors and then freaking Bible characters
It sounds like a huge mess and I really want to see it.
Mix 'Things to Come' with 'The Fountainhead', add some Caro (Power Broker) with Coppola's touch. Might not be easy to digest but pretty much unmissable.
You’ve seen it?
No but clearly these are key influences. Just like Kwaidan for Dracula for instance. Mr. Coppola has good taste. The Fountainhead is incredible btw ( forget Ayn Rand's 'ideology' but as a film)
The question I need answers to is will Adam Driver be doing an Italian accent in this? No need for one but he might as well continue it and make it a feature of all films he does with legendary filmmakers.
I still really want them to just do a Coppola miniseries, with Roman Mars as the guest for Megalopolis.
I’m kinda shocked the pod has come this far without doing him tbh.
It's a very long filmography with a lot of stinkers, so not really that surprising. But he's also had some of the most historic blank checks ever, so it'd definitely be an interesting series.
They have steered away from problematic directors and you can’t ignore the fact he funded the trial defense and career of a convicted paedophile. And also threatened to blacklist the victim if they didn’t finish working on the film they were assaulted on.
Eh, they’ve covered worse. It’s really only the guys who are *direct* monsters they won’t touch.
[They've covered a guy who beat his ex-girlfriend](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-24-me-49817-story.html), that's not the reason they haven't covered him
I really enjoy 99PI, but why Roman Mars specifically for a guest?
It's a movie about an architect and urban planning, with The Power Broker as one of its inspirations.
Oh word yea that tracks
99PI is currently doing a year-long read along podcast on The Power Broker, and David was recently a guest!
"Cesar, in turn, would be a master builder," COME INNNNNNNNNN
Not sure whether to laugh or cry at this pitch: *Vanity Fair* has the exclusive first look at the result: **Adam Driver** as the idealistic architect and artist planning to rebuild a city that has fallen to ruins, and **Nathalie Emmanuel** as the socialite daughter of his nemesis, a corrupt mayor (**Giancarlo Esposito**), who likes his municipal kingdom the way it is. In his official logline for the film, Coppola describes Driver’s character as having the “power to stop time,” while Emmanuel’s character is caught between the two, deeply in love with the artist but loyal to her hard-charging father, “forcing her to discover what she truly believes humanity deserves.”
Idk why but the random detail that Driver can stop time like he's pausing a videogame is really funny to me.
What's that Adam Sandler film?
Click
Pixel?
Someone showed Coppola a SimCity video set to Phillip Glass music and he said “that’ll be the next movie”
Things to Come fucking rips and if that's his main inspiration I'm so here for it. Also give me all the plasticy fake-ass backgrounds you want. Realism in CGI is so overrated.
Never not calling this MEGALOPIS like Spike. Can't wait to see it. https://www.reddit.com/r/blankies/s/fwLdEtDTPE
The Peeper
Why is the thumbnail a still from Matrix Resurrections?
That image reminds me of sky captain and the world of tomorrow. Looks way shittier than I was imagining haha. Stoked to see a teaser.
I love the sky captain energy! Sky captain x Power Broker is what I didn’t know I wanted
Looking great.
Adam Driver starring in a director's long-delayed passion project? Wait a second....
I want to see this more than anything I’ve heard about in well over a decade.
This is gonna be Youth without Youth 2. I love that movie and I'll love this one.
I'm skeptical, but I hope you're right.
Only thing missing is this also being a musical
The tendency of people, news outlets and others wishing for this film to crash and burn amazes me. Let us all collectively wish that a legendary director who pulled over 100 million dollars of his own money to make a film spectacularly fail, while we gush over Deadpool and Wolverine. A film where a character in the title died in a film several years ago. At least not shit on it until you see it.
This plot synopsis and that image read like Atlas Shrugged Part IV and I'm here for its messiness
This looks fucking awesome
Francis threatened to sue and did successfully blacklist a 12 year old child that his longtime friend was raping for years. So pass.
Adam Driver, the muse of aging and failing once-great directors.
Other examples ?
Gilliam, Mann, Carax (arguably)
Big disagree on Carax but you can have your opinion.
I want it to not be true but hard to reconcile the drop between Holy Motors and Annette (which I so wanted to love but couldn’t). I love Driver for doing it though.
I really love Annette (still in top 10 of 2020s films that I have seen) so can't really relate right there. Found it just as formally exciting as Holy Motors but in a different way slightly. The ghost of Golubeva is as strong as ever in it I thought.
Mann is still great
you’re being downvoted but you’re right jarmusch, mann, coppola, carax, gilliam and maybe ridley have used him as a selling point to sell their long cooking projects. and mann hasn’t made a good film since collateral 20 years ago