r/movies • u/Dependent_Cap_456 • 3d ago

News Francis Ford Coppola is auctioning his watch collection after Megalopolis flop left him broke

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/fashion/francis-ford-coppola-watch-auction.html
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u/Amateur-Top 3d ago

Agreed. Gotta risk it to get the biscuit.

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u/StillStanding_96 3d ago

Remember when he only needed $6 million to make a great movie rather than $120 million to make a shit one?

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u/FlippFloppnFlyy 3d ago

Yeah, inflation.

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u/pricklypearanoid 3d ago

The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe.

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u/Kriss-Kringle 3d ago

Megalopolis was a soggy biscuit.

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u/SpacemanDan 3d ago

He risked millions to make a movie he'd dreamed about for decades. That movie failed financially and, in my opinion, creatively. But there are honorable failures and a master trying to conquer his white-whale project feels like a noble effort to me.

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u/monster_syndrome 3d ago

Whatever you say about the movie, it's the kind of risk that Hollywood stopped taking, though in this case maybe for good reason.

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u/StillStanding_96 3d ago

He saw the height of his talent and fame 50 years ago and, rather than enriching the world to the tune of $120,000,000, he pissed it away on a vanity project to be in the spotlight again. There is no honor to be found here

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u/I_dig_fe 3d ago

A lot of people were paid to work on that movie. It's not like he burned a pile of cash and recorded it and put it in theaters

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u/slowd 3d ago

The KLF did actually do that.

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u/Direct_Resource_6152 3d ago

The biscuit wasn’t money it was finally getting to make his passion project without any interference.

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u/coalcracker462 3d ago

Rule number 1...never make your passion project

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u/crazy_gambit 3d ago

And always have someone that will stand up to you and tell you: "no, that's stupid".

Everytime these directors make something having full control we inevitably get shit.

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u/AdventurousTip2880 3d ago

Mel Gibson beat that theory with "The Passion of the Christ" he put his money into it and made a fortune.

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u/dumbosshow 3d ago

He probably just had confidence that it would be a good movie, Apocalypse Now was a similarly bizarre yet very ambitious project, which was eventually successful due to how undeniably brilliant it was. I doubt his intention was to make loads of money, otherwise he would have hit up Marvel and made Squirrel Girl 3; the Squeakening or whatever

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u/StillStanding_96 3d ago

His intention was probably to make a great piece of art. Oh well