Aubrey Plaza has joined the cast of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, making the production even more mega.
Aubrey Plaza joins a Megalopolis cast that also includes Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Laurence Fishburne, Jon Voight, and more. At one point, Oscar Isaac, Cate Blanchett, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Zendaya were attached. Reportedly, the late James Caan was also considered at one point. Caan, who played Sonny Corleone in Coppola’s The Godfather, passed away in July.
The plot synopsis: “The fate of Rome haunts a modern world unable to solve its own social problems in this epic story of political ambition, genius and conflicted love.”
Filming on Megalopolis–the 83-year-old Coppola’s much-anticipated passion project–will begin this year and extend into March 2023. No release date has been set.
The road to Megalopolis has been a long one, dating back to at least the early 2000s. Production was scrapped initially after 9/11, as the plot involved rebuilding a major city after a catastrophic event. Coppola has essentially funded the movie himself, forking out around $100 million of that sweet, sweet wine moolah.
Francis Ford Coppola, who has directed some of the greatest films ever with The Godfather trilogy (OK, maybe the first two, but the third has its place…), Apocalypse Now and The Conversation. This will be his first motion picture since 2011’s Twixt.
2022 has been another standout year for Aubrey Plaza. Other than joining the Megalopolis cast, she starred in Spin Me Round, which our reviewer called a “unique and entertaining film”, and Emily the Criminal, which has garnered Plaza some of the highest praise of her career.
Now that more of the cast is filling out and production is moving forward later this year, Megalopolis should be on everyone’s list of must-see movies of 2023–assuming there are no more snags.