Francis Ford Coppola reveals the graphic novel by Megalopolis | Francis Ford Coppola

Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppolas $ 120 million passion project, was neither a cash register nor a critical success in release last year. Largely financed by the sale of Coppola’s own vineyards, the SCI-Fi Epic with Adam Driver took about $ 14 million in the worldwide cash register in the midst of not convinced assessments and rumors about abnormal on-set behavior by the director.

A marketing campaign tried to use bad critical notifications by marking that previous works by Coppola now praised as masterpieces – including Apocalypse Now and The Godfather – had been rejected by critics at the time. But this was a counterproductive removed after it came forward, all Snuify historic assessments were manufactured.

The film failed to earn the attention of bodies other than the Golden Raspberries for Bad Movies, who voted the film both the worst director and the worst supporting actor (for Jon Voight).

Now is a new attempt to guarantee the inheritance of what the last film of the 86-year-old director can be: a comic book reinterpretation by Chris Ryall, entitled Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis: an original graphic novel.

In a statement on Thursday, Coppola explained that the book would not just be a repeat of his film. “I was happy to place the idea of ​​a graphic novel in Chris Ryall’s competent hands with the idea that, although it was inspired by my film Megalopolis, it should not necessarily be limited,” he said.

“I hoped that the graphic novel would take its own flight, with his own artists and writer, so that it would be a brother or sister of the film, instead of just an ultrasound. That is what I feel that Chris, Jacob Phillips and the team of Abrams comicarts have reached. It confirms my feeling that that of my feeling. art Can never be limited, but rather always a parallel expression and part of the premium we can make available to our customers, public and readers. “

Said Ryall: “Coppola’s stories tell me challenged and inspired me in every turn”, and added that he hoped that he “created something that both the world of the original film had honored and expanded.”

Although graphic novels are often used as source material for film, especially for superhero films, the reverse is considerably more unusual.