Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis Story Will Expand Into a Graphic Novel: 'A Sibling of The Film, Rather Than Just An Echo'

There was nary movie released successful 2024 arsenic divisive arsenic Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. The bold, unique, and, to some, bizarre epic was the speech of the municipality instantly upon its premiere astatine past year’s Cannes Film Festival and became a large taxable of some praise and ridicule arsenic the twelvemonth progressed. But now, the filmmaker volition contiguous the communicative successful different form, arsenic Megalopolis is acceptable to beryllium released arsenic a graphic novel.

The reinterpretation of the movie volition beryllium titled Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis: An Original Graphic Novel, and Abrams ComicArts volition beryllium publishing the publication sometime successful October, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It volition beryllium written by Chris Ryall, who is possibly champion known for his adaptations of large genre writers’ works including Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, and Clive Barker. Illustrations volition beryllium done by Jacob Phillips, whose enactment includes Newburn and That Texas Blood.

“I was pleased to enactment the thought of a graphic caller successful the competent hands of Chris Ryall with the thought that, though it was inspired by my movie Megalopolis, it didn’t needfully person to beryllium constricted by it. I hoped the graphic caller would instrumentality its ain flight, with its ain artists and writer truthful that it would beryllium a sibling of the film, alternatively than conscionable an echo,” Coppola told the outlet successful a statement.

“That’s what I consciousness Chris, Jacob Phillips and the squad astatine Abrams ComicArts person accomplished. It confirms my feeling that creation tin ne'er beryllium constrained, but alternatively ever a parallel expression, and portion of the bounty we tin marque disposable to our patrons, audiences and readers.”

Megalopolis follows a forward-thinking designer (Adam Driver) who believes it is his destiny to physique a modern utopian city, but successful the process makes an force of his city’s politician (Giancarlo Esposito), who wants thing much than to squash his plans to revitalize New Rome — arsenic this is, of course, a Roman fable of sorts — into Megalopolis.

The movie is not presently disposable to watercourse but is disposable to rent oregon bargain wherever you get your movies.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.