Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis gets US release date

After its massive success at the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival, Francis Ford Coppola’s sci-fi epic Megalopolis has set a release date for the US market. Lionsgate has signed a deal to distribute the film in the US and Canada.

Megalopolis will release on September 27. It will play in Imax and most likely share screen with Christopher Nolan’s 10th anniversary Interstellar re-release. It will also play out over the screens when Joaquin Phoenix starrer Joker: Folie à Deux releases on October 4.

In a statement, Adam Fogelson, chair of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group said, “Francis is a legend. For many of us, his gifts to cinema were one of the inspirations to devote our own careers to film. It is a true privilege to work with him, and to bring this incredible, audacious, and utterly unique movie to theatrical audiences. At Lionsgate, we strive to be a home for bold and daring artists, and ‘Megalopolis’ proves there is no one more bold or daring than the maestro, Francis Ford Coppola.”

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Meanwhile, a lot is riding on Megalopolis for Francis Ford Coppola. The 85-year-old director had ended up independently financing the film for $120 million.

Megalopolis features Adam Driver as an architect who accidentally destroys a New York City-esque metropolis and works to rebuild it as a sustainable utopia. In the process, he’s challenged by the corrupt mayor (Giancarlo Esposito), who wants to stick to the status quo, as the bureaucrat’s daughter (Nathalie Emmanuel) comes between the two men. Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight and Laurence Fishburne round out the cast.