“Megalopolis” Includes an Interactive Portion with the Audience in Select Theaters. Here's What Happens

The moment breaks the fourth wall, and features a live participant at select theaters and showtimes across the U.S. this weekend

Megalopolis is breaking the fourth wall.

When Francis Ford Coppola's epic sci-fi drama premieres this week, it will include an interactive portion in select theaters where audiences can participate in a press-conference scene from the film, where Adam Driver's character Cesar Catalina is fielding off-camera reporter questions.

The experience includes a live person who gets up and asks the "reporter's" question into a microphone set up somewhere in the theater, after which Driver answers as part of the movie. Examples of the interaction be seen in photos and videos on social media,

As IndieWire notes, the individual who was the live participant at the Cannes Film Festival screening in May, where Megalopolis premiered, was Coppola's nephew Jason Schwartzman, who also appears in the film.

Nearly three dozen theaters across the U.S. will feature showtimes over the weekend that include the live-participant portion, which audience members can take advantage of by purchasing tickets for “Megalopolis: The Ultimate Experience," if available.

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A film 40 years in the making for Coppola, 85, Megalopolis was born from the writer-director's desire to make a movie about a collapsing empire based on a moment from Roman history called the Catilinarian Conspiracy, in which Lucius Sergius Catilina was said to have planned a coup to overthrow Marcus Tullius Cicero, but failed and was publicly shamed.

The big-budget project takes pieces from this story, which has been highly contested throughout history, and places it in a glamorous, old-timey version of New York City.

In Megalopolis, Cesar Catalina (Driver, 40) is an optimistic architect who has the power to control and stop time. He desires to create a better society while his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), wants to maintain power by keeping the city’s government corrupt.

The politician’s daughter Julia (Nathalie Emmanuel), on the other hand, isn’t sure how to feel or what to believe amid the strife. These dynamics play out over the two-hour-and-18-minute film, which leans heavily on the science-fiction genre and a strong historical influence.

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Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight and Laurence Fishburne are also among the star-studded cast of Megalopolis, which marks Coppola’s first film in 13 years.

Others who star include Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal and Chloe Fineman, as well as Coppola’s sister Talia Shire and granddaughter Romy Mars, whose mother is his daughter Sofia Coppola.

Coppola has been working on Megalopolis since finishing his iconic 1979 war film Apocalypse Now. Over the years, he has talked about his passion project and how he even spent $120 million of his own funds to get Megalopolis made.

"It doesn't matter ... the money doesn't matter," he said during a Cannes press conference in May. "What's important are friends. Because a friend will never let you down; money may evaporate."

Megalopolis is in theaters Friday, Sept. 27.

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