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In the film, Adam Driver plays Cesar Catilina, an architect and scientist who seeks to improve a fictional version of New York City called New Rome. The film also stars Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia Labeouf and Giancarlo Esposito, among others.
But people like Driver were missing from the start of filming because they were assigned to other projects.
“I had this extraordinary cast, but many of them couldn’t be there from the beginning, so I couldn’t rehearse with them,” Coppola said IndieWire“I assigned an understudy to each actor, and if an actor couldn’t be there, I rehearsed with the understudy.”
Although Coppola had to resort to this method of working, he said that by using an understudy “a lot of good came out of it that benefited the film.”
Big citywhich was financed by Coppola himself and took decades to produce, received mixed reactions when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
The film also received mixed reactions from critics, who Rotten tomatoes with a score of 52 percent. Many have commented on the “bizarreness” of the film, with The Guardian and described it as “bloated, boring and astonishingly superficial”.
In a two-star review, NME wrote: “The problem is – and maybe that was part of the problem – that the whole piece is so uneven that sometimes it’s like watching a toddler being given free reign as an interior designer. Just because you mayThis does not mean that you always should.”
“Apart from that, Coppola deserves great praise for investing $100 million of his own money in making his film. Big city Whether the film will be a critical or box office success remains to be seen, but it’s strange enough to certainly have a long-lasting cult following.”
As a result, Coppola recently released a new trailer for the film, which contains negative reviews of his previous films, such as The Godfather, Apocalypse nowAnd Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
The film is scheduled to be released in cinemas on September 27th.
