Francis Ford Coppola’s big-budget indie film ‘Megalopolis’ casts Coppola’s sister (and his Godfather star) Talia Shire and nephew Jason Schwartzman in the project. Also joining the cast are Shia LaBeouf, Grace VanderWaal, Kathryn Hunter and James Remar.
Megalopolis notably marks LaBeouf’s highest-profile project since former girlfriend FKA Twigs detailed in a February 2021 lawsuit alleged abuse she suffered at his hands. The actor has been back in the headlines over the past week as he prepares to launch his film Padre Pio on Sept. 2 at the Venice Film Festival. He pushed back at filmmaker Olivia Wilde saying she fired him from her fellow Venice title Don’t Worry Darling, asserting that he quit and leaking text messages and a video from Wilde he says prove that point. The pop culture site Giant Freaking Robot first reported LaBeouf’s casting earlier this month.
Coppola, whose Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974) both won best picture Oscars and are considered two of the greatest films of all time, is independently financing Megalopolis, which is budgeted at just under $100 million.
Hunter, who appeared in the Denzel Washington awards contender The Tragedy of Macbeth, is repped by Stanton Davidson Associates.
Remar, whose long career has included TV work on Dexter and a turn in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, is repped by Oppenheimer.
