It’s been over a yr since Francis Ford Coppola unleashed Megalopolis into the world, the bizarre and probably remaining film in his illustrious profession. Megalopolis was met with confusion and revulsion however has garnered a bunch of followers who admire its unusual ambition. Whereas Megalopolis nonetheless doesn’t have a bodily launch, these followers can relive the expertise… in comedian ebook kind.
In Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis: An Unique Graphic Novel, author Chris Ryall and artist Jacob Phillips put their very own spin on Coppola’s imaginative and prescient. The author of graphic novel variations of Shaun of the Lifeless and the Masters of Horror sequence, Ryall is aware of tips on how to translate different voices into comedian ebook kind. However Megalopolis is so inextricably tied to Coppola that the challenge offered a singular problem.
“With any adaptation I’ve executed, I attempt to be true to the supply materials whereas additionally making an attempt to correctly adapt it to this medium, even when that necessitates transforming some scenes to suit the graphic novel kind,” Ryall advised Comedian Guide Membership Reside. “There’s at all times a voice at the back of my head that’s scolding me for being presumptuous by enhancing or revising the work of an Oscar-winner however I managed to quiet that voice as I went alongside. Partly as a result of Francis was so encouraging to us to make this ebook its personal factor.”
Doing their very own factor meant some casting modifications, as Phillips modeled the Mayor Cicero character after Forest Whitaker as an alternative of Giancarlo Esposito. Nonetheless, that stemmed extra from the truth that Ryall and Phillips labored off of an earlier model of the script, earlier than casting accomplished. Likewise, the script didn’t have the notorious interactive second wherein Adam Driver‘s character takes questions from the precise viewing viewers, a lot to Ryall’s disappointment; “Maybe if we ever do one other version of the ebook we are able to add some clean interactive house for the reader to fill in as they need,” Phillips mused.
