SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about the narrative of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. EXCLUSIVE: One of the many talking points to emerge from this week’s Cannes Film Festival screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic Megalopolis is whether distributors will be able to replicate the film’s ‘fourth wall moment’.
As most reviews for the film detail, at a certain point in Wednesday’s world premiere a performer walked onto the stage in front of the cinema screen and engaged with Adam Driver’s character in a device known as “breaking the fourth wall.” Is it plausible that distributors would replicate such a moment in every screening?
Unlikely. But at least one will give it a good shot. Jean Labadie, who runs the film’s French distributor Le Pacte, told Deadline: “We certainly will do a lot of such performances.
With four screenings a day in many theaters it will not be easy to do it for each screening. It will be organized, but we cannot predict how many times we’ll be able to do it.
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