‘Megalopolis’ Trailer Yanked After Fake Critic Quotes Pointed Out
Just hours after it premiered on Wednesday morning, the first trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s epic Megalopolis is being scrubbed from the internet.
Initial praise for the trailer’s stick-it-to-‘em attitude quickly turned to confusion as social media users began to point out that a segment made up of scathing quotes from critics about Coppola’s previous masterpieces seemed to have absolutely no basis in reality.
There is no evidence that The New Yorker’s Pauline Kael said The Godfather was “diminished by its artsiness,” for instance, and while the Chicago Sun-Times did once use the phrase “a triumph of… style over substance,” he was talking about 1989’s Batman, not Coppola’s Dracula.