(New York) Almost half a century after winning the Palme d’Or in Cannes with his Apocalypse NowFrancis Ford Coppola will return to the Croisette in May to present in preview, and in competition, his epic. Megalopolis.
The news was confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday by a person familiar with the project, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to make the announcement. It’s a Hollywood site Deadline who first announced Megalopolis will be rated in the 77th tournamente Cannes Film Festival on May 17.
The festival did not immediately respond to a message Tuesday. The chief delegate of the Cannes Film Festival, Thierry Frémaux, is expected to launch the program on Thursday in Paris. Mr. Frémaux announced last week to this newspaper Different that he hoped to arrange Megalopolis This year.
« Megalopolis is a project that he wanted to do for a long time and he did it independently, in his own way, as an artist, Mr. Frémaux said. He created the legend of the Cannes Film Festival and it will be an honor to welcome him back, as a filmmaker coming to present his new film. »
The fact that Megalopolis being shortlisted means Coppola, 85, will be awarded the Cannes Palme d’Or, 45 years after winning. Apocalypse Now.
He shared the Palme that year with Volker Schlöndorff and his Dancebut he also won the highest distinction 50 years ago for Secret conversationwith Gene Hackman.
In recent weeks, Coppola has estimated Megalopolis to friends and family and start showing it to distributors. The project, which he began to create in the early 1980s, would cost 120 million. Coppola invested his money with the help of his wine empire to carry out an ambitious project to rebuild the capital. It stars Adam Driver and Giancarlo Esposito, and features a star-studded cast, including Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Chloe Fineman, Kathryn Hunter and Dustin Hoffman.
The Cannes Film Festival, which opens on May 14, has already announced the premiere of the new Mad Max and George Miller and Horizon, America’s Saga and Kevin Costner. Earlier on Tuesday, the festival announced that George Lucas would receive the honorary Palme d’Or.
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