Francis Ford Coppola fought with the Shiites La Pov during Megalopolis (and you can watch it happens)

Regardless of what you might think – and given its critical and commercial performance, the possibilities are your opinion is not completely high – there is no denial of that “Megalopolis” from Francis Ford Coppola is one of the most wonderful films in the past few years. This has nothing to do with the actual content of the film, which blends the aesthetics of Hollywood, the Golden Age, Roman History, ridiculous comedy, and a “epic” style into a confusing juice of $ 120 million. Instead, attention comes from the same project, and it has been fully funded by the Coppolas private cabinets after decades from the famous director who is trying and failed to obtain it.

This bare process is placed in the new documentary “Megadoc” from the director “Las Vegas” Mike Figgis. The documentary trailer provides glimpses of chaotic works often behind the scenes, which enable Figgis and its crew to reach widespread arrival during production. It is worth noting the Coppola approach sometimes improvisation, and its repeated engagement with SHIA Labeouf on the group.

These aspects of the story were slightly explored in reviews of “Megadoc” in the wake of the last first show at the Venice Film Festival, and those reviews were generally more appropriate than that of the “Megalopolis” itself. The documentary gets praise to display one of the most inconsistent filmmakers in America to work in the late DREAM project, as well as filming a drama of producing huge independent films.

Huge independent financing, strange production design, camp writing, and disorganized policy are not the only controversial aspects of “Megalopolis”. From the jump, Francis Ford Coppola seemed almost determined to arouse the conversation by throwing a number of Hollywood tournaments, including Shiites LabovJohn Voett, and Dustin Hoffman. Labeof had a long history of legal issues and general scandals, and in 2020, musician and former FKA Twigs filed a lawsuit for sexual battery and assault – a recently settled lawsuit for an unknown amount in July 2025.

Voight built his own controversial reputation after he made himself one of the prominent Hollywood supporters in Donald Trump and honestly on the theories of advanced right -wing conspiracy, such as the idea that the American presidential elections for 2020 were “stolen”. Voight has publicly stopped from his most famous daughter, Angelina Jolie, for years. Dustin Hoffman, who has a smaller role in “Megalopolis”, has been in a series of allegations of sexual misconduct since 2017.

Put all these names together on a group with Coppola – who faced his misconduct accusations about the time of the launch of the movie – and it is not surprising that we hear that there are repeated clashes during filming. The full version of “Megadoc” is to enter these details, in addition to the least tense privacy for the director of aging, who tries to determine the passion project from his pocket.

The documentary of Figgis is likely to add only to the strange legend “Megalopolis” – a movie that seems to be designed, with the will of Coppola, to exceed many wonderful films of the director and the prevailing piece of its modern legacy becomes. The mystery has been amplified only How difficult is “Megalopolis” already Since its release. Various tours and theatrical performances continued, but the presence of the film on rental and digital broadcast platforms was intermittent at best.

Perhaps the scenes added drama can pay attention to the film, which fell into theaters despite the generation of a large -scale campaign. “Megadoc” is not the first time that Coppola is the subject of a documentary film that explores chaotic production. However, the last one – “Dark hearts: the end of the world of the director” – narrated the story of a much better movie.