Megalopolis: See Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel in the first image from Francis Ford Coppola’s film

Megalopolis It will be Coppola’s third time competing for the award at Cannes. He won in 1974 for The Conversation and 1979 for Apocalypse Now. The Cannes Film Festival takes place from May 14th to 25th in France.

Adam Driver stars in the film, with Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Aubrey Plaza, Dustin Hoffman, Giancarlo Esposito, Shia LaBeouf, Jason Schwartzman, Chloe Fineman, Isabelle Kusman, DB Sweerney, Bailey Ives It is Talia Shireveteran of The Godfather, completing the cast.

The film’s story follows Caesar (Adam Driver), a visionary architect who wants to rebuild New York as a utopia after a disaster destroys the city. He fights against the mayor, played by Giancarlo Esposito, and in a Shakespearean way, is in love with his rival’s daughter, Julia (Nathalie Emmanuel). The two families are rivals, and differ in their vision of New York’s future.

Coppola directed the film, independently financing the $120 million budget with his own money and is the screenwriter. Originally, Oscar Isaac would be the protagonist.

The film has been a dream of Coppola, now 84 years old, for more than 20 years. The budget is approximately US$100 million and the director is investing part of his money to reach this amount. Like many of Coppola’s projects, there is no shortage of stories of behind-the-scenes chaos.

Coppola sees the film as a Roman epic in the style of Ben-Hur, but set in modern America. Based on the Catilinian Conspiracy, which comes from ancient Rome, it shows a utopian society like a modern New York trying to rebuild itself after a disaster.

Megalopolis debuts this year. According to Coppola, it won’t be long before we see the film. A launch in Cannes Festivalscheduled for May this year, is expected but has not yet been confirmed.