2024 was a wierd yr for motion pictures, from the Wicked juggernaut to the unusual case of Emilia Perez. However there was nothing fairly like Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, a self-funded dystopian fever dream apparently many years within the making. It starred Adam Driver as a self-obsessed architect with the power to cease time, however that’s solely scratching the floor of a story that featured a personality named Wow Platinum and a second that necessitated a stay actor within the theater.
Regardless of all of the hype, evaluations have been completely combined, and Megalopolis’ remaining field workplace numbers positioned it firmly in flop territory. However the story is in some way not over but.
Megalopolis is getting extra graphic.
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In keeping with The Hollywood Reporter, Megalopolis shall be tailored right into a graphic novel from Abrams ComicArts referred to as Francis Ford Coppola‘s Megalopolis: An Authentic Graphic Novel. The guide, at the moment slated for an October 2025 launch, shall be written by Chris Ryall and illustrated by Jacob Phillips.
The comedian model of the story received’t simply be a translation from display screen to web page. “I used to be happy to place the concept of a graphic novel within the competent fingers of Chris Ryall with the concept, though it was impressed by my movie Megalopolis, it didn’t essentially should be restricted by it,” Coppola stated in a press release. “I hoped the graphic novel would take its personal flight, with its personal artists and author in order that it will be a sibling of the movie, somewhat than simply an echo.”
In keeping with Coppola’s assertion, Megalopolis’ graphic novel adaptation shall be a “sibling, not an echo.”
Jacob Phillips
However what does a sibling to 2024’s wildest film even appear to be? Will or not it’s one other story set in the identical universe, the identical story with new supplementary materials, or possibly even the identical story with an alternate ending? With Megalopolis, something is on the desk.
We could by no means see one other film fairly prefer it, and that’s most likely for the most effective, however no less than its odd story will proceed in one other, less expensive medium. It might be legitimately fascinating to see what different creators do with this universe, so long as there aren’t any extra random soliloquies from Hamlet or AI-generated critic blurbs.
