The first Megalopolis trailer looks like a Coppola sci-fi fever dream

After gestating within the thoughts of author / director Francis Ford Coppola for the higher a part of the final century, Megalopolis is lastly making its technique to the massive display screen at this 12 months’s Cannes Movie Pageant. And from the seems of the sci-fi epic’s first teaser trailer, it may be nearly every thing Coppola at all times dreamt it will be.

Set in a sprawling metropolis that’s been devastated by a cataclysmic pure catastrophe, Megalopolis tells the story of how architect Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver) tries to rebuild the town utilizing his uncommon means to regulate time. There appears to be no stopping or reversing the bathe of flaming meteors that descend upon the town within the new trailer as Cesar and different residents watch in horror. However as imperiled as the town could also be, Cesar seems to be useless set on attempting to persuade folks the way it may be remade as a utopia if solely they’d perceive his visions for a greater future.

With the current being so stuffed with chaos, glamorous extra, and destruction, the longer term Cesar desires to make actual in all probability feels one thing like a dream that others can’t totally wrap their minds round. The trailer makes that really feel considerably true of Megalopolis as a complete as nicely, however that will wind up being a part of the movie’s enchantment when it will definitely makes its theatrical debut after premiering at Cannes.