After his self funded $120m dream project Megalopolis flopped ( to date it has only made $12m worldwide and seems unlikely to recoup its costs even on Home Entertainment formats) and looked to be his last ever film it now turns out that Francis Ford Coppola has not retired after all with the announcement of his next film.
Taking to The Washingtom Post Coppola says he’s planning on moving to London to begin work on a new feature film titled “Glimpses of the Moon” calling it a “1930s-style strange musical” and confirms it’s based on the 1922 Edith Wharton novel of the same name. Described as a comedy of errors the films follows the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, a couple with the good connections but little money who devise a plan to marry and spend a year sponging off their wealthy friends. ( ‘Isn’t this the Harry & Megan story?’ – Ed). Further to this if either one of them meets someone who can advance them socially, they’re free to dissolve the marriage. (‘Well that’s definitely the Meghan Markel story!’ – Ed)
The book has often been compared to Wharton’s more famous work “The House of Mirth” but how closely the film will be to the book is unknown but a silent film adaptation was previously made in 1923 but has been lost to time.
Further to this the director still hopes to make his “Distant Vision” movie based on Thomas Mann’s 1901 novel “Buddenbrooks” that follows three generations of an Italian family and centres around the invention of the television. So if this news is true then it would seem that Francis Ford Coppola has not retired after all!
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