An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster.An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster.An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster.
Francis Ford Coppola wrote the script in the early 1980s, but the film was kept on the back-burner partially due to his financial debts. Pre-production finally began in 2001 after recording a table read with Paul Newman, Uma Thurman, Robert De Niro, James Gandolfini, Nicolas Cage, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Edie Falco, and Kevin Spacey and 30 hrs of second unit footage; but the project was scrapped after the September 11 attacks, since the story centered on the destruction of New York City. Coppola fully abandoned the project in 2007, and didn't began developing it again until 2019.
