Does anyone here have any idea of who will score Francis Ford Coppola's last film Megalopolis?
Will Osvaldo Golijov do it?
Edit: Confirmed on Golijov's own website which says he will do it: "He is currently working on the soundtrack for Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming film Megalopolis".
Wildly varying opinions and reviews of "Megalopolis" have gone online since it premiered yesterday at Cannes. I haven't read anything about the score though?
If this does find a US distributor for IMAX (that whole issue sounds very complicated!) I'll be there as it'll be a must-see for me at least.
Stylistically, it looks interesting, and maybe it's trying to make some kind of commentary (though it seems to be confused and is making commentary on both ends, this making any ultimately point, muddled at best), but I just couldn't connect and engage with it.
And it concerns me that a film maker and/or studio feels the need to yanks out his 'member berries and name drop passed titles and let us know how wrong people were about it. If he's such hot shit still after all these years, there's no need to even think about so expensive graphics and to mind thump us again and again with. Makes me think they know the film was a misfire, but they spent a ton of cash on it and want people to go in any way.
Maybe a polished turn, maybe not. I guess we'll know soon enough.
But wouldn’t you agree that the Jonathan Harker storyline is weak when it should be at least a counterpart to the Mina story?
Not really. Harker plays a minimal role in the film, so in that respect it doesn't matter that it's a mundane character (played even more mundane by Keanu) and that his relationship to Mina is downplayed. It's all about mise-en-scene, Gary Oldman, production design, music, MOOD.
I think FFC's Bram Stoker's Dracula is an okay film, but the title insults the intelligence of any viewer who ever actually read Bram Stoker's Dracula. I mean, if you're going to use the author in the title, read the damn book, Francis.
Granted, faithful adaptions of novels don't necessarily translate into good movies: the BBC Dracula with Louis Jourdan was very faithful, excepting the pretty boy casting of the count, but suffered from poor production values.
Okay, this is the wrong thread to vent but since it came up . . .
I think FFC's Bram Stoker's Dracula is an okay film, but the title insults the intelligence of any viewer who ever actually read Bram Stoker's Dracula. I mean, if you're going to use the author in the title, read the damn book, Francis.
Yeah, exactly. (I can't stand the film, even beyond it being an awful adaptation of the book which pretends to be faithful just because it deletes fewer characters than usual... Keanu is absolutely horrible and this is probably the only bad performance I've ever seen from Anthony Hopkins.)
My guess: lazy Googling, not actually reading a page, just seeing excerpts of text and assuming it is correct. But I'm sure the film will be better than this.
