As reported back in April, Francis Ford Coppola has already set up his next film, and it looks like it will be shooting soon.
Coppola is telling The Telegraph that he’s ready to go on an adaptation of Edith Wharton’s “The Glimpses of the Moon” and “inspired” by Leo McCarey’s “The Awful Truth.” Both deal with married couples amicably splitting up only to find it harder to let go of each other than they initially thought.
The filmmaker describes his upcoming version of Wharton’s novel as having “strong dance and musical elements.” He adds, “I’ve turned it into a very odd confection.” It should be noted that the one and only musical Coppola has ever directed is 1981’s “One From the Heart.”
He hopes to shoot it in the UK and Europe – “funded the conventional way, with the help of national subsidies, because I’m all borrowed out.” Coppola previously told Deadline that his next film “won’t be cheap by any means”, but unlike “Megalopolis,” he didn’t think “it can be called ‘an epic film.'”