Francis Ford Coppola now turning Megalopolis into much less expensive graphic novel
Coppola describes the adaptation of his 2024 film as "a sibling of the film, rather than just an echo."
Screenshot: Megalopolis
The story of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is not, it turns out, over. The legendary director has announced (per The Guardian) that he’s moving forward with a plan to launch a graphic novel interpretation of his decades-in-the-making film, presumably because graphic novels don’t cost as much to make as movies, which turn out to be pretty dang expensive! (Coppola famously partially self-funded Megalopolis, which had a budget in the $130 million range. Getting too bogged down in box office realities is, obviously, reductive to art, but he, uh, definitely didn’t make that money back after the movie finished its fairly brief, critically confused theatrical run.) Graphic novels are typically cheaper, on account of how you can just draw the thing, whether it’s a fantastical futuristic city scape, or an Adam Driver saying “go back to the cluuuub” in that one scene we’ve watched about a billion times, which suggests that Coppola does have some sense of economic scale when it comes to this story.
