One comparison that is not directly made in the movie is that between Megalopolis ' ending and the Catilinarian Conspiracy. The true story of these events heavily inspired Coppola's narrative.

The Megalopolis movie will be released on digital, on premium video-on-demand, on Tuesday, November 12. You’ll be able to buy or rent the film on digital platforms like Amazon Prime, Apple TV ...

“Megalopolis” proves that Coppola is not one of them. This man doesn’t know how to make good movies anymore. In fact, he doesn’t appear to know how to make any movie anymore.

Where to watch Megalopolis movie: For now, Megalopolis will only available to watch in a movie theater, when it opens in the U.S. on Friday, September 27. You can find a showing near you via Fandango.

So it comes as no surprise that with his latest movie, "Megalopolis," which made its North American premiere at Toronto International Film Festival, Coppola, 85, has once again thrown caution to wind.

But when you don't know how to make a movie, which, for example, I didn’t with Apocalypse Now, you listen and the movie tells you how to make it. And that's what happened with Megalopolis.

Francis Ford Coppola has made some stone-cold classics. His sci-fi epic "Megalopolis," a B-movie wannabe starring Adam Driver, is not one of them.

“Every movie I make involves passion,” writer and director Francis Ford Coppola says. “The Godfather is very classical. Apocalypse Now is very wild.” His latest, Megalopolis, is a Roman ...