Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis gets Shia LaBeouf and Jason Schwartzman on board

Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has added actors Shia LaBeouf and Jason Schwartzman to the ensemble cast of his upcoming film Megalopolis . According to entertainment outlet The Hollywood, the film already has actors Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne and Aubrey Plaza on board. Veteran actor Talia Shire, Coppola’s sister who also featured in the filmmaker critically-acclaimed _The Godfather_ movies, has also joined the cast of the new film along with Grace VanderWaal, Kathryn Hunter and James Remar. Coppola is directing the independently financed film, his passion project, from his own script. The filmmaker has described the project as a contemporary drama in which “the fate of Rome haunts a modern world unable to solve its own social problems in this epic story of political ambition, genius and conflicted love”. The film, mounted on a budget just south of USD 100 million, will begin production later this year. Read all the  Latest News ,  Trending News ,  Cricket News ,  Bollywood News , India News  and  Entertainment News  here. Follow us on  Facebook,  Twitter and  Instagram.