Aubrey Plaza to star in Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’

parks and Recreation Star Aubrey Plaza is the latest addition to the ensemble cast of Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming film Metropolitan,

Plaza joins a cast that includes Adam Driver, Forrest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight and Laurence Fishburne. Saint The filmmaker is directing an independently funded film, his passion project from his own script.

Coppola described earlier Metropolitan As a contemporary drama in which “the fate of Rome haunts a modern world unable to solve its social problems in this epic tale of political ambition, genius and conflicted love”.

According to time limitThe film is made on a budget south of $100 million, and production will begin later this year.

Plaza, who is receiving career-best reviews for her recent film Emily the CriminalAlso set to star in a second season of HBO’s hit anthology series white Lotus,