Francis Coppola Draws Robert De Niro, Spike Lee For NYFF Panel Prior To IMAX Premiere Of ‘Megalopolis’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: When Francis Ford Coppola sits for a conversation about his new film Megalopolis before it plays the New York Film Festival on Monday, September 23, the master filmmaker will be interrogated by two Gotham film fixtures.
That will be Robert De Niro, whom Coppola directed to his first Academy Award in The Godfather Part II, and Spike Lee, a lifelong admirer of Coppola who was among the first to see 30 minutes of Megalopolis.
The trio will take part in a conversation moderated by NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim, in an evening the festival is calling an IMAX Live presentation, Megalopolis: The Ultimate IMAX Experience.
The studio is working on a couple other big names to give Coppola a fitting tribute. Doesn’t Al Pacino live in New York, for instance?
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