Apocalypse now a fascinating science-fiction project from director Francis Ford Coppola Megalopolis remains one of Hollywood’s biggest train wrecks. The last derailment was a trailer that had to be pulled out to fabricate quotes. Now it’s reported surprise, the quotes in the trailers were generated by AI.
Where to start Megalopolis“In low, it’s a heady but big-budget arthouse film with an eclectic but all-star cast led by Adam Driver about an architect facing an existential crisis in a futuristic city. Coppola apparently wanted to make it for decades, even selling part of his vineyard to finance its $120 million budget. His divided critics roughly 50 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and Coppola he was accused of inappropriate behavior on the set, in this video where you can see him kissing the extras.
This week, a trailer was released featuring well-known film critics criticizing various Coppola’s previous films, such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula. “Diminished by her craftsmanship” – we can read in a quote attributed to Pauline Kael Godfather Down New Yorker that flashes on the screen trying to draw attention to any recent negative press reports Megalopolis is similarly flawed. The only problem was that Kael never wrote it. Diversity now reporting that generative artificial intelligence did it.
“Sources say, Diversity “Nor did Lionsgate or Egan intend to fabricate the quotes, but they erred in properly fact-checking and verifying the wording provided by the consultant,” the report reads. “It appears that artificial intelligence was used to generate the fake quotes from critics.”
Lionsgate has not commented on the allegations, but has parted ways with Eddie Egan, the marketing consultant now blamed for the embarrassing controversy. “Lionsgate is immediately retracting our trailer Megalopolis,” the company that distributes the film announced earlier this week. “We offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this inexcusable error in our review process. We messed up. We apologize.”
Megalopolis It hits theaters on September 27th and I’m damn curious about it.
