Bold new films from The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola and Kevin Costner show there are still mavericks in American cinema, but can they pull it off?
In the fevered atmosphere of the Cannes Film Festival this week, one of the hottest topics has been whether legendary director Francis Ford Coppola could pull off the monumentally ambitious sci-fi drama, his first film for more than a decade.Now 85, Coppola wanted to tell a story about greed and idealism, set in a futuristic America, that he had been mulling over since the 1980s.
“I’ve mortgaged 10 acres on the water in Santa Barbara where I was going to build my last house,” Costner has said
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