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Between them is Julia Cicero, whose loyalty is divided between her father and her beloved
Chronology
The city of New Rome faces a duel between Cesare Catilina, a brilliant artist who advocates for a utopian future, and the greedy mayor Franklin Cicero. Francis Ford Coppola wrote the screenplay in the early 1980s, but the film was shelved in part due to his financial debts. Pre-production finally began in 2001 after 30 hours of second unit filming and table readings with Paul Newman, Uma Thurman, Robert De Niro, James Gandolfini, Nicolas Cage, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Edie Falco and Kevin Spacey, but the project was scrapped after of the 9/11 attacks, because the script scene (page 166) "predicted" attacks.
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Coppola abandoned the project entirely in 2007 and didn’t start developing it again until 2019.. There are many moments throughout the film where hand movements jump between cuts.. "The ultimate IMAX experience" the film version features a live actor asking questions during a taped press conference.
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My Promise Written by Grace VanderWaal Performed by Grace VanderWaal Courtesy of Columbia Records In arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment Produced and orchestrated by Kris Kukul. Full disclosure: This movie is a disaster of epic proportions – an absolute train wreck that derails, crashes, and then somehow catches fire. It’s so bad, it’s almost brilliant, the kind of so-horrible-it’s-genius nightmare that future cult fans will rave about.
And you know what?
I respect the hell out of Coppola for that. The guy is a cinematic legend who just decided to throw all caution (and coherence) to the wind and go completely mad scientist on this one. It’s a glorious, unfiltered jumble from the mind of a genius who has clearly stopped caring what anyone thinks.
Well done, you magnificent madman!
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