Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’: An Exclusive First Look at the Director’s Retro-Futurist Epic
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The movie is about the personal, political, and romantic clashes that arise during a battle to construct an American utopia, and it was shaped in part by the speculative prophecy of H.G. Wells, a murderous conspiracy from ancient Roman history, the devastation of the September 11 attacks, and the outsize influence of attractive cable news hosts, among a litany of other inspirations. “To that, I added everything I had ever read or learned about,” Coppola says in a statement. Vanity Fair has the...

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