To finance his next film Coppola is ready to stake his fortune

The "

" always has the madness of grandeur.

Francis Ford Coppola, already author of monumental works such as the

trilogy

or

, says he is ready to invest more than one hundred million dollars from his pocket to make the film of his dreams:

.

Between science fiction and peplum

The director has been working on it for twenty years. But the attacks of September 11 put a stop to this project centered on the city of New York.

stages an architect, who dreams of creating a utopian New York, but who has to face the mayor of the city, hostile to his project. A project between science fiction and peplum, since it would be partly based on the Conjuration of Catiline, the rebellious senator who opposed Cicero, in ancient Rome.

In the spring of 2019, Coppola tackles

again

, but no studio follows him in his cinematic “megalomania”.

Always animated by an inextinguishable sacred fire, the filmmaker, at 82, has not abdicated: “

”he recently told Deadline.

To make his project a reality, the director has already broken his piggy bank, selling part of his Californian vineyard to finance the beginnings of the film.

"

A film that gives hope to young people

"

Unlike his other large-scale accomplishments rooted in the near or present past - the Mafia and the assimilation of Italians into American culture for

, the Vietnam War for

- Francis Ford Coppola did not scared to look to the future: “

Marvel

"

The director hopes to be able to start shooting his feature film in the fall of 2022. For what will perhaps be his ultimate work, he wants to surround himself with the greatest. Lovers of his gesture will be happy to know that Coppola has contacted the legendary Sonny Corleone, the unforgettable James Caan from The

. And for good measure, he's also approached the crème de la crème of Hollywood, Forest Whitaker, Oscar Isaac, Cate Blanchett, Jon Voight, Zendaya, Michelle Pfeiffer and Jessica Lange.