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Megalopolis: the $120m Coppola flop that just won't go away — A screening tour, a New Year's re-release, a documentary, an incoming director's cut … will we ever be rid of this historic misfire? (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 points 6 days ago

Patrician architect Cesar Catilina is one of New Rome's leading lights. Cesar wins the Nobel Prize for inventing the revolutionary building material Megalon. In addition, he can secretly stop time.

I can't fathom how a director can dream about telling such a generic story. Like, really? Out of all the stories you can retell or invent you chose a story of revolutionary building material and... stopping time? I might see it just out of curiosity.

This reminds me about "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote". He worked for decades to film it and the result was terrible. Maybe some directors are just terrible producers.