{"id":980115,"date":"2025-10-07T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?p=980115"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:58:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:58:42","slug":"francis-ford-coppolas-megalopolis-comic-book-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/francis-ford-coppolas-megalopolis-comic-book-adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s Cult Curio Megalopolis Gets a Comic Book Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s been over a year since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/francis-ford-coppola\/\">Francis Ford Coppola<\/a> unleashed <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/megalopolis-review-francis-ford-coppola-rages\/\">Megalopolis<\/a><\/em> into the world, the weird and possibly final movie in his illustrious career. <em>Megalopolis<\/em> was met with confusion and revulsion but has garnered a group of fans who admire its strange ambition. While <em>Megalopolis<\/em> still doesn&#8217;t have a physical release, those fans can relive the experience&#8230; in comic book form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s<\/em> <em>Megalopolis: An Original Graphic Novel<\/em>, writer Chris Ryall and artist Jacob Phillips put their own spin on Coppola&#8217;s vision. The writer of graphic novel adaptations of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/shaun-of-the-dead\/\">Shaun of the Dead<\/a><\/em> and the <em>Masters of Horror<\/em> series, Ryall knows how to translate other voices into comic book form. But <em>Megalopolis<\/em> is so inextricably tied to Coppola that the project presented a unique challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\r\n\n\t\t<div class=\"ad-dog__cnx-container\"><script id=\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\">\n\t\t\tcnx.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tcnx({\n\t\t\t\t\tplayerId: \"106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t}).render(\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\");\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t<\/script><\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p>&#8220;With any adaptation I\u2019ve done, I try to be true to the source material while also trying to properly adapt it to this medium, even if that necessitates reworking some scenes to fit the graphic novel form,&#8221; Ryall <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbookclublive.com\/2025\/10\/07\/chris-ryall-and-jacob-phillips-go-back-to-the-club-for-megalopolis-an-original-graphic-novel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told <em>Comic Book Club Live<\/em><\/a>. &#8220;There\u2019s always a voice in the back of my head that is scolding me for being presumptuous by editing or revising the work of an Oscar-winner but I managed to quiet that voice as I went along. In part because Francis was so encouraging to us to make this book its own thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doing their own thing meant some casting changes, as Phillips modeled the Mayor Cicero character after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/forest-whitaker\/\">Forest Whitaker<\/a> instead of Giancarlo Esposito. However, that stemmed more from the fact that Ryall and Phillips worked off of an earlier version of the script, before casting completed. 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