There was no film launched in 2024 as divisive as Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. The daring, distinctive, and, to some, weird epic was the discuss of the city instantly upon its premiere finally yr’s Cannes Film Festival and have become a serious topic of each reward and mock because the yr progressed. But now, the filmmaker will current the story in one other kind, as Megalopolis is ready to be launched as a graphic novel.
The reinterpretation of the movie will likely be titled Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis: An Original Graphic Novel, and Abrams ComicArts will likely be publishing the ebook someday in October, based on The Hollywood Reporter. It will likely be written by Chris Ryall, who is maybe greatest identified for his variations of main style writers’ works together with Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, and Clive Barker. Illustrations will likely be completed by Jacob Phillips, whose work contains Newburn and That Texas Blood.
“I used to be happy to place the concept of a graphic novel within the competent arms of Chris Ryall with the concept, though it was impressed by my movie Megalopolis, it didn’t essentially need to be restricted by it. I hoped the graphic novel would take its personal flight, with its personal artists and author in order that it could be a sibling of the movie, slightly than simply an echo,” Coppola instructed the outlet in a press release.
“That’s what I really feel Chris, Jacob Phillips and the staff at Abrams ComicArts have completed. It confirms my feeling that artwork can by no means be constrained, however slightly all the time a parallel expression, and a part of the bounty we will make accessible to our patrons, audiences and readers.”
Megalopolis follows a forward-thinking architect (Adam Driver) who believes it’s his future to construct a contemporary utopian metropolis, however within the course of makes an enemy of his metropolis’s mayor (Giancarlo Esposito), who desires nothing greater than to squash his plans to revitalize New Rome — as that is, after all, a Roman fable of kinds — into Megalopolis.
The movie shouldn’t be at present accessible to stream however is out there to lease or purchase the place you get your motion pictures.
Lex Briscuso is a movie and tv critic and a contract leisure author for IGN. You can comply with her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
