Francis Ford Coppola lately concluded his nationwide tour of his ardour challenge Megalopolis, an thought the 86-year-old filmmaker stated had been brewing in his thoughts for round half of his life. The tour featured dynamic discussions and screenings of the movie, highlighting the wealthy fictional world Coppola constructed – and if you wish to spend extra time in that world, Abrams ComicArts has you lined. They’ve revealed Megalopolis: An Unique Graphic Novel (you’ll be able to choose up a replica HERE), and right this moment we now have an EXCLUSIVE preview of the graphic novel! You’ll be able to test it out on the backside of this text.
The 160-page graphic novel will provide readers an immersive new model of Coppola’s story, tailored by author Chris Ryall and artist Jacob Phillips. Right here’s the outline: Set within the futuristic metropolis of New Rome, Megalopolis initially captivated audiences with its masterful filmmaking, changing into one in every of Francis Ford Coppola’s most generally mentioned movies. Now, in graphic novel type, it explores the gripping narrative of idealism versus corruption. Architect and dreamer Cesar Catilina seeks a utopian future, whereas Mayor Franklyn Cicero fights to protect the established order—rife with greed and political warfare. Caught between these highly effective forces is Julia Cicero, the mayor’s daughter, whose romance with Cesar exams her loyalty and compels her to redefine her beliefs about what humanity really deserves.
Coppola offered the next assertion: “I was pleased to put the idea of a graphic novel in the competent hands of Chris Ryall with the idea that, although it was inspired by my film Megalopolis, it didn’t necessarily have to be limited by it. I hoped the graphic novel would take its own flight, with its own artists and writer so that it would be a sibling of the film, rather than just an echo. That’s what I feel Chris, Jacob Phillips and the team at Abrams ComicArts have accomplished. It confirms my feeling that art can never be constrained, but rather always a parallel expression, and part of the bounty we can make available to our patrons, audiences and readers.” Ryall stated, “Adapting Francis Ford Coppola’s visionary Megalopolis has been an incredible creative thrill. Coppola’s storytelling challenged and inspired me at every turn, and collaborating with Jacob Phillips brought new depth to the narrative. With Abrams ComicArts, we’ve created something that both honors and expands the world of the original film.” Phillips added, “Megalopolis is a big, awe-inspiring story which insisted I pushed my paintings to new ranges to satisfy the problem. A Roman epic in modern-day America.“
Ryall had this to say about Phillips’ paintings: “The best way Jacob introduced this visually complicated scene to life was so masterful. The characters all stroll on construction-site planks over a scale mannequin of town and debate the deserves of bettering town in numerous methods, and he made all of that work so nicely. In spite of everything, a scene the place characters ‘debate the merits’ of something has potential to be visually flat – characters speaking aren’t precisely the stuff of fantastic splash pages in comics. However, a lot as Francis did within the movie, Jacob saved his personal digicam shifting, pulling in tight, pulling again, and zooming overhead so as to add drama and weight to the characters’ phrases. A part of what Jacob has performed in all of the comics he’s labored on that I discover so spectacular is his relative paucity of traces – he conveys a ton of emotion with only a few traces. And in a e book the place town, because it exists and because it evolves, is such a distinguished a part of the story, it’d be simple for an artist to get misplaced in traces to promote each element of the environment. Jacob manages to indicate quite a bit with out ever over-rendering his pages. All of which gave me a number of thrills: once I first noticed his layouts, then the inked and grey-toned pages, after which lastly the gorgeous golden hues he added to complete this sequence.“
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