Director Francis Ford Coppola said at a Cannes news conference that he wasn’t thinking about Donald Trump per se, but “Megalopolis” certainly has MAGA parallels.
Director Francis Ford Coppola poses for portrait photographs for the film 'Megalopolis', at the 77th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 17, 2024.
Is Coppola scared of people like Donald Trump being at the helm of American society, a journalist from Barcelona asked Friday, at what was by far the most crowded and anticipated news conference of the festival? Voight is one of Hollywood’s most outspoken conservatives and had urged his fans not to support the certifying of the 2020 election. He’s called Trump “the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln.” He’s also come out in favor of Israel defending itself in the war in Gaza and has endorsed Trump’s presidential candidacy in 2024.He did not, however, take Coppola’s bait.
Why did Coppola want to do “a Roman epic, but set in modern America”? “Because America was founded on the ideas of the Roman Republic,” he said, explaining that much of our architecture is based on Rome, including the original Penn Station, modeled on the Baths of Caracalla.
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