Does Francis Ford Coppola thrive on chaos? Not exactly, the director claims in the new trailer for Megadoc , Mike Figgis’ behind-the-scenes documentary on the tumultuous making of Coppola’s 2024 film Megalopolis : “I’m confronting chaos.”
Coppola spent $120 million of his own money on Megalopolis , a script he’d been working on for decades, and recruited stars including Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza , Nathalie Emmanuel, Shia LaBeouf , Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, and Dustin Hoffman for the project. Figgis had extensive access to the making of the film and interviewed most of the stars. Coppola’s clashes with LaBeouf are a running theme in the movie — in the trailer, we see him yelling, “I’ve done this for 50 years.”
“You know why I’m doing this mov