Higher Name Saul star Giancarlo Esposito has been introduced as the newest solid member to affix Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming movie, Megalopolis.
Esposito, who additionally returns to screens this spring in The Mandalorian, will be a part of the likes of Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Dustin Hoffman, and Jon Voight, who’ve already been solid in Coppola’s movie (by way of Deadline).
Different actors within the movie embody Laurence Fishburne, Nathalie Emmanuel, Chloe Fineman, Bailey Ives, Jason Schwartzman, Kathryn Hunter, DB Sweeney, Talia Shire, James Remar, and Grace Vanderwaal.
Written and directed Coppola, Megalopolis follows the story of an architect who makes an attempt to rebuild New York Metropolis following a catastrophe that destroys it.
A synopsis reads: “The destiny of Rome haunts a contemporary world unable to unravel its personal social issues on this epic story of political ambition, genius and conflicted love.”
Filming on the mission is presently underway.
Coppola, whose final movie was 2011 horror Twixt, is self-funding the movie with a price range at slightly below $100million.
Coppola beforehand mentioned financing the mission with The Hollywood Reporter, saying: “There’s a sure approach everybody thinks a movie needs to be, and it rubs towards the grain when you have one other thought. Individuals could be very unaccepting, however generally the opposite thought represents what’s coming sooner or later. That’s worthy of being thought-about.”
Final yr, Coppola criticised the similarities amongst fashionable blockbuster movies, which he claimed have been primarily based on the identical “prototype”.