Megalopolis (2024)

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Wikidata Q115175910, film, IMDb tt10128846, TMDB 592831: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 4 more episodes agree.

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Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check — Patreon

The Big Picture

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

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Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Francis Ford Coppola: 2 lines career ×1 industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Megalopolis → Francis Ford Coppola. Megalopolis made Coppola feel more like a blank-check director.
    “I do think Megalopolis made him feel a little more... a blank checkie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:51:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

65: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Megalopolis → 65. Passion projects that took decades usually need Adam Driver to land; 65 took 25 years.
    “if you have a passion project you've been trying to make for 20 years, the key is Adam Driver.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 2:10:32 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Gangs of New York: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (passion-project warning): Gangs of New York → Megalopolis. Decades-long passion projects rarely pan out; Megalopolis is the cautionary example.
    “Has anyone been like, yeah, that was it. nailed that. Megalopolis.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:26:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Megalopolis → The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Hope Megalopolis will not be a letdown like Gilliam's long-awaited Don Quixote.
    “I just don't want it to be like the Gilliam Don Quixote movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 2:09:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Francis Ford Coppola → Megalopolis. Coppola seems to be closing the book on his career with recuts, then Megalopolis.
    “The last, like, 10 years in the next movie. to Megalopolis when his field, like, felt like Francis Coppola is trying to sort of close the book on his whole career.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:56:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. career (passion-project warning): Gangs of New York → Megalopolis. Decades-long passion projects rarely pan out; Megalopolis is the cautionary example.
    “Has anyone been like, yeah, that was it. nailed that. Megalopolis.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:26:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Megalopolis → The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Hope Megalopolis will not be a letdown like Gilliam's long-awaited Don Quixote.
    “I just don't want it to be like the Gilliam Don Quixote movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 2:09:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Megalopolis → Francis Ford Coppola. Megalopolis made Coppola feel more like a blank-check director.
    “I do think Megalopolis made him feel a little more... a blank checkie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:51:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Megalopolis → 65. Passion projects that took decades usually need Adam Driver to land; 65 took 25 years.
    “if you have a passion project you've been trying to make for 20 years, the key is Adam Driver.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 2:10:32 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

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