Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ to Premiere in Competition at Cannes

Director Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” is set to premiere in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

The film, a 20-year passion project for “The Godfather” filmmaker, has a fraught plotline involving the destruction of a New York-esque city that sees two men clash over their differing visions of the future. Adam Driver plays an ambitious architect butting heads with the city’s mayor, played by Giancarlo Esposito. Caught in the crossfire is the mayor’s daughter, played by Nathalie Emmanuel.

Coppola initially wrote the script for this in the 1980s and, in a desire to bring the film to fruition, invested over $100 million of his own money into the production.