The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Francis Ford Coppola’s long-gestating – and self-financed – sci-fi epic Megalopolis, is in severe peril with the production believed to have descended into what the publication has described as “chaos”.
The movie, which has been shooting in Atlanta since October, has lost key creative talent in the past week including the production designer and supervising art director, in addition to losing the entire visual effects team at the beginning of December.
It was reported previously that Coppola intended on, and initially proceeded with, using virtual production technology similar to that on The Mandalorian – a real-time generating CGI projection background, known as The Volume within Disney – before costs of that approach spiraled wildly out of control, leading to the production to retreat back to traditional green screen technology.
