The newest trailer for Megalopolis has been taken down.
On Wednesday, August 21, 2024, Lionsgate posted a brand new trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, which releases in United States theaters on September 27, 2024. The start of the trailer options derisive quotes from well-known critics about Coppola’s previous work; nevertheless, it has since come to gentle that thesequotes have been both made up or misappropriated.
Lionsgate has now taken the trailer offline and issued an apology.
What did Lionsgate say in regards to the Megalopolis trailer?
“Lionsgate is instantly recalling our trailer for Megalopolis,” a spokesperson advised Variety. “We provide our honest apologies to the critics concerned and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this inexcusable error in our vetting course of. We screwed up. We’re sorry.”
Owen Gleiberman, who writes for Selection, was one of many critics who was incorrectly quoted within the trailer for Megalopolis.
“Even if you happen to’re a kind of individuals who don’t like critics, we hardly should have phrases put in our mouths. Then once more, the trivial scandal of all that is that the entire Megalopolis trailer is constructed on a false narrative,” Gleiberman mentioned. “Critics cherished The Godfather. And although Apocalypse Now was divisive, it acquired loads of essential crucial assist. So far as me calling Bram Stoker’s Dracula ‘an exquisite mess,’ I solely want I’d mentioned that! Concerning that movie, it now sounds form.”
One other Roger Ebert quote featured within the trailer was attributed to the late critic’s response of Bram Stoker’s Dracula; nevertheless, it has since been revealed that the quote itself was not solely not talking about Coppola, however slightly was about 1989’s Batman.
Pauline Kael’s quote, which allegedly known as The Godfather a movie “diminished by its artsiness,” additionally seems to be a wholly false quote, as she lavished the film with reward.
