After assembling enough big stars to form a Hollywood version of The Avengers, Francis Ford Coppola has finally finished his casting for his next movie Megalopolis. Per Deadline, Hollywood legend and Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman is among the final cast members that have been added to the ensemble cast of the big-budget feature film. Other new additions to the cast alongside Hoffman include Chloe Fineman (Saturday Night Live), Isabelle Kusman (Licorice Pizza), D.B. Sweeney (Captive State), and newcomer Bailey Ives.
Many other big names were also announced previously to be a part of the cast of Megalopolis. Starring in lead roles will be Adam Driver (Star Wars series), Forest Whitaker (Godfather of Harlem), and Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones). Other supporting actors included in the film are Jon Voight (Baby Geniuses), Laurence Fishburne (John Wick series), Talia Shire (Rocky series), Shia LaBeouf (The Peanut Butter Falcon), Jason Schwartzman (Fargo), Grace VanderWaal (Stargirl), Kathryn Hunter (The Tragedy of MacBeth), and James Remar (Gotham).
The official logline for Megalopolis reads:
The fate of Rome haunts a modern world unable to solve its own social problems in this epic story of political ambition, genius, and DANGEROUS love.
Megalopolis Is Costing Francis Ford Coppola Big Bucks to Develop
Megalopolis is a passion project for Coppola that has been percolating in the filmmaker's brain for decades. Making the film is not cheap, costing nearly $100 million in production costs. To get the movie made, Coppola has even had to dip into her personal wealth as he's footing most of the bill himself. The director has stated that he's putting in the money as he doesn't want to risk regretting his missed chance to finally get Megalopolis made.
"What’s the worst that can happen to me? I’m going to die and be broke? I’m not going to be broke," Coppola told Deadline. "My kids are all successful. They’re going to have this beautiful place…You’ve seen Inglenook. They’re going to have that."
He added, "I’m confident that if you can make a film that people can keep getting something out of for 10, 20 or more years, you will not lose money. I look at my movies. They’re all being looked at 50 years later. The Outsiders, Dracula, they are still seen. My films, the more weird they are, the longer they seem to last. I don’t even know why."
Megalopolis does not yet have a premiere date set.