Mike Fleming Jr: What’s Behind Francis Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ Roadshow

Mike Fleming Jr: What’s Behind Francis Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ Roadshow

EXCLUSIVE: Over the course of his five-Oscar career, Francis Coppola has many times gone back under the hood of even his greatest films like Apocalypse Now and The Conversation, to recut and improve versions for posterity. But he’s gone into uncharted territory with Megalopolis, the $120 million-budget film he self-financed. Last Sunday, Coppola headed to the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, NJ to introduce to a packed theater his provocative …