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Posted on 08/26/2024 3:51:01 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
Francis Ford Coppola told Rolling Stone that his intention with “Megalopolis” was to make a movie that could not be deemed “some woke Hollywood production.” The cast includes controversial actors such as Jon Voight, who has turned heads in Hollywood for his conservative views and outspoken support for Donald Trump, and Shia LaBeouf, who was accused of sexual assault in 2021.
“What I didn’t want to happen is that we’re deemed some woke Hollywood production that’s simply lecturing viewers,” Coppola said. “The cast features people who were canceled at one point or another. There were people who are archconservatives and others who are extremely politically progressive. But we were all working on one film together. That was interesting, I thought.”
As far as working with LaBeouf, who has barely starred in any movies since accusations surfaced against him, Coppola praised the actor while admitting things were tense with him.
“Shia [LaBeouf] really took to it,” Coppola said. “I had no experience working with him prior to this, but he deliberately sets up a tension between himself and the director to an extreme degree. He reminds me of Dennis Hopper, who would do something similar, and then you’d say, ‘Just go do anything,’ and then they go off and do something brilliant.
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I’ll have to watch this one when it comes out.
Hands clapping.
Apparently Variety thinks conservative views and outspoken support for Donald Trump are equivalent to sexual assault.
“Shia LeBeouf”?
WTH kinda name is that?
I dunno... FFC lost points in my eyes some years back, when he supported Victor Salva. Hard to make up for that.
I’m going to see “Reagan” this weekend, which also has Jon Voight in the cast. Can’t wait!
2024 American epic science fiction drama film written, directed, and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. It features an ensemble cast including Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman, James Remar, D. B. Sweeney, and Dustin Hoffman. Set in an imagined modern United States, it follows Cesar Catilina (Driver), a visionary architect, as he clashes with the corrupt Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Esposito) in determining how to rebuild the metropolis of New Rome after a devastating disaster.
VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - 10 episodes
“Leave the gun, take the canoli” was said by an actual mob guy.
Everyone who loves The Godfather movies should watch it. An amazing series.
uh that sounds good but I think he’s a liberal and it sounds like the movie sucks.
The kind of name that belongs to his raving jackass: https://www.businessinsider.com/shia-labeouf-most-controversial-moments-timeline#in-2017-labeouf-was-arrested-in-georgia-and-went-on-a-racist-tirade-against-a-black-police-officer-10 ... and don’t even get me started on his “authorship is censorship” crap.
Sounds like an Ayn Rand novel. I think he borrowed some concepts.
His mother was Jewish; Shia means gift of God. His last name is Cajun, as is his father.
Great actors are often Leftist or insane because they can easily and congruently believe something that — beneath the surface — they know is false.
I’ll go see this movie just for that.
He did a good turn in the movie “Fury”
Marvel apparently cleaned house and got rid of anybody in production who might be termed an activist, so it is working.
” The cast includes controversial actors such as Jon Voight,“
I have never heard the wokesters called controversial.
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