In April 2019, Coppola announced that he planned to direct Megalopolis, which he had been developing for many years prior. Speaking to Deadline, he said: "I plan this year to begin my longstanding ambition to make a major work utilizing all I have learned during my long career, beginning at age 16 doing theater, and that will be an epic on a grand scale, which I've titled Megalopolis." He had planned to direct the movie, a story about the aftermath and reconstruction of New York City after a mega-disaster, many years earlier, but after the real-life disaster of the September 11 attacks, the project was seen as being too sensitive.
In April 2019 Coppola announced that he planned to direct Megalopolis which he had been developing for many years prior Speaking to Deadline he said "I plan this year to begin my longstanding ambition to make a major work utilizing all I have learned during my long career beginning at age 16 doing theater and that will be an epic on a grand scale which I've titled Megalopolis" He had planned to direct the movie a story about the aftermath and reconstruction of New York City after a mega-disaster many years earlier but after the real-life disaster of the September 11 attacks the project was seen as being too sensitive