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Francis Ford Coppola Says Superhero And James Bond Movies Are All The Same

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Published 07:37 18 Feb 2022 GMT

Francis Ford Coppola Says Superhero And James Bond Movies Are All The Same

Director Francis Ford Coppola has claimed big studio movies like James Bond and Marvel superhero films are all the same.

Emily Brown

Emily Brown

American film director Francis Ford Coppola has claimed big studio movies like James Bond and Marvel films are all the same in spite of their differing creators.

Coppola certified himself as a central figure in filmmaking with the release of The Godfather in 1972, and throughout his lengthy career has worked on a number of other popular titles including Apocalypse Now and The Godfather sequels.

He has been lauded with numerous Academy Awards and Golden Globes for his work, and it seems he is now using his knowledge of filmmaking to criticise the apparent lack of variation in the modern film industry.

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Francis Ford Coppola (Alamy)
Francis Ford Coppola (Alamy)

Coppola's comments came in an interview with GQ to mark 50 years since the release of The Godfather, where he discussed recent popular movies such as Dune and No Time To Die.

The director is said to still love movies, but 'not particularly recognize or enjoy the modern movie industry' as he commented: 'There used to be studio films. Now there are Marvel pictures. And what is a Marvel picture? A Marvel picture is one prototype movie that is made over and over and over and over and over again to look different.'

Coppola went on to imply that 'even the talented people' are creating films that are interchangeable, adding: 'You could take Dune, made by Denis Villeneuve, an extremely talented, gifted artist, and you could take No Time to Die, directed by Cary Fukunaga – extremely gifted, talented, beautiful artists, and you could take both those movies, and you and I could go and pull the same sequence out of both of them and put them together.'

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. (Marvel Studios)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. (Marvel Studios)

'The same sequence where the cars all crash into each other. They all have that stuff in it, and they almost have to have it, if they're going to justify their budget. And that's the good films, and the talented filmmakers.'

Coppola took a break from filmmaking following the release of The Rainmaker in 1997, though he explained to GQ that he 'always felt that I didn't leave the movie business'. Rather, he said, 'The movie business left me.'

He continued: 'It went another direction. So, the movie business changed. As it changed, it was less interesting to me. I began to focus more on my own personal cinema dreams.'

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Having found his way back to filmmaking, Coppola is now preparing a big-budget film of his own titled Megalopolis, which is set in a futuristic version of New York and explores the idea of a utopia.

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Featured Image Credit: AF Archive/Landmark Media/Alamy

Topics: Film and TV, Marvel, James Bond, Entertainment

Emily Brown
Emily Brown

Emily Brown is UNILAD Editorial Lead at LADbible Group. She first began delivering news when she was just 11 years old - with a paper route - before graduating with a BA Hons in English Language in the Media from Lancaster University. Emily joined UNILAD in 2018 to cover breaking news, trending stories and longer form features. She went on to become Community Desk Lead, commissioning and writing human interest stories from across the globe, before moving to the role of Editorial Lead. Emily now works alongside the UNILAD Editor to ensure the page delivers accurate, interesting and high quality content.

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