The film already stars actors Adam Driver, Forrest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne and Aubrey Plaza.
The film already stars actors Adam Driver, Forrest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne and Aubrey Plaza.
Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has added actors Shia LaBeouf and Jason Schwartzman to the ensemble cast of his upcoming film “Megalopolis”.
According to entertainment outlet HollywoodThe film already stars actors Adam Driver, Forrest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne and Aubrey Plaza.
Veteran actor Talia Scherer, Coppola’s sister, who also starred in the critically acclaimed “The Godfather” films, has also joined the cast of the new film, along with Grace Vanderwaal, Katherine Hunter and James Remer.
Coppola is directing his own passion project, an independently financed film, from his own script.
The filmmaker described the project as a contemporary drama in which “the fate of Rome haunts a modern world unable to solve its social problems in this epic tale of political ambition, genius and conflicted love”. .
Production on the film, made on a budget south of $100 million, will begin later this year.