Coppola Confirms His Next Movie, ‘Glimpses of the Moon,’ Is in Pre-Production

Francis Ford Coppola is one of the biggest filmmakers of all time. That cannot denied. The Oscar-winning director has left us numerous works that will remain an important part of the history of cinema, including but not limited to The Godfather trilogy, The Conversation, Dracula, and so on.

But while Coppola was a hitmaker several decades ago, after Dracula, his career started to fade. He was not present for some time and his long-awaited return, Megalopolis, was a disaster and a flop that earned him a Razzie for worst director. Still, as he has announced, he is not retiring and we have some news in that aspect.

In a recent podcast, Coppola confirmed that his next movie – earlier, he had said that he would do two more movies – was in pre-production, and based on the information he provided, it will probably be very different than Megalopolis.

Namely, Coppola is working on an adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel The Glimpses of the Moon, and he revealed that it would be a much less ambitious project financially: “I don’t have any money because I invested all the money, that I borrowed, to make “Megalopolis”. It’s basically gone.”

This could be a good thing ultimately, seeing how Megalopolis flopped, and we hope that the director will get back on track, as a giant of Coppola’s size doesn’t deserve to go out with a movie like Megalopolis.

The potential downside? It has been rumored that the movie will be a musical, so it remains to be seen how Coppola will work around that.

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