'Megadoc' Director Mike Figgis On Coppola & Making Of 'Megalopolis'

Since his earliest days making films, Francis Ford Coppola has been willing to risk it all — his reputation, perhaps even his sanity and certainly his finances — to make a project come to life. In his 80s he did it again, putting up his own money to realize a film he had dreamed of for decades, Megalopolis .

Alas, the big gamble hasn’t paid off commercially, at least at this stage. Setting aside whether Coppola failed or not, the grandeur of his vision – and the vexing problems he faced throughout production – are captured for posterity in Megadoc , directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Mike Figgis ( Leaving Las Vegas , Liebestraum ). It’s now playing in select theaters.

Figgis joins the latest episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk , explaining what it was like to be