Francis Ford Coppola is going on tour.
The legendary director has teamed with Live Nation for what is being promoted as “An Evening With Francis Ford Coppola and Megalopolis Screening.” Each of the six tour stops will feature a showing of the 2024 film followed by an interactive discussion with Coppola and the audience organized under the theme “How to Change Our Future.”
The tour offers moviegoers the chance to catch another look at the much buzzed about film that is not available on any streaming platforms, per Coppola’s wishes. “This is the way Megalopolis was meant to be seen, in a large venue, with a crowd and followed by intense interactive discussions about the future,” Coppola said in a statement.
Tickets are on sale now via Ticketmaster. The tour kicks off at Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, New Jersey, on July 20. Coppola and Megalopolis will then move on to cities including Chicago, Denver, Dallas and San Francisco. (Megalopolis is also getting new life as a graphic novel.)
Megalopolis, Coppola’s passion project decades in the making, is set in the futuristic city of New Rome. It stars Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Shia LaBeouf and Aubrey Plaza and follows an architect and dreamer Cesar Catilina (Driver) who seeks a utopian future while battling with Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Esposito) who seeks to preserve the status quo. Caught between the two is the mayor’s daughter Julia Cicero (Emmanuel) whose romance with Cesar tests her loyalty and compels her to redefine her beliefs about what humanity truly deserves.
Coppola self-financed the $120 million film which bombed at the box office and has earned only $14.3 million worldwide to date. When Coppola picked up the American Film Institute’s lifetime achievement honor in April, his Megalopolis star Driver praised his creative ambitions with the film.
“This is a principled life, and for a year in our culture when the importance of the arts is minimized and our industry is seemingly out in the open that the only metric to judge a film’s success is by how much money it makes, I hang on to individuals like Francis for inspiration, who live through their convictions, through big moves, all in service of pushing the medium forward,” Driver said. “Francis took $120 million and created a singular gesture for what he thought film could be, and I think that’s pretty great.”
A promotion for Francis Ford Coppola’s new live tour in partnership with Live Nation.
Courtesy of Live Nation
“An Evening With Francis Ford Coppola and Megalopolis” tour dates are below.
Sun, July 20 – Red Bank, NJ – Count Basie Center for the Arts
Wed, July 23 – Port Chester, NY – The Capitol Theatre
Fri, July 25 – Chicago, IL – The Chicago Theatre
Sun,July 27 – Denver, CO – Paramount Theatre
*Tues,July 29 – Dallas, TX – The Texas Theatre (*Not a Live Nation Date, Tickets Available Here)
Fri, Aug 1 – San Francisco, CA – Palace of Fine Arts
