Megadoc goes behind the scenes on Francis Ford Coppola’s infamous utopian epic.
Megadoc goes behind the scenes on Francis Ford Coppola’s infamous utopian epic.
by Andrew WebsterSep 18, 2025, 1:00 PM UTCAndrew Webster is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.
It’s been almost exactly a year since I first saw Megalopolis, and the last 12 months haven’t been kind to Francis Ford Coppola’s long-gestating epic. It mostly bewildered critics and audiences, earned back just a fraction of its $120 million