Tommy Chong
Player Valuation: £60m
Sounds like the dream boss to me…There were a lot of murmurs a few months back about it being a car crash. People working on the film bewildered by how badly Coppola was doing things to the degree that if they didn't know better they'd have sworn it was someone who'd never made a film before.
‘Has this guy ever made a movie before?’ Francis Ford Coppola’s 40-year battle to film Megalopolis
The director has spent half his life and $120m of his own money to make his sci-fi epic. Just days ahead of its debut in Cannes, some of his crew members are questioning his methodswww.theguardian.com
“He would often show up in the mornings before these big sequences and because no plan had been put in place, and because he wouldn’t allow his collaborators to put a plan in place, he would often just sit in his trailer for hours on end, wouldn’t talk to anybody, was often smoking marijuana … And hours and hours would go by without anything being filmed. And the crew and the cast would all stand around and wait. And then he’d come out and whip up something that didn’t make sense, and that didn’t follow anything anybody had spoken about or anything that was on the page, and we’d all just go along with it, trying to make the best out of it. But pretty much every day, we’d just walk away shaking our heads wondering what we’d just spent the last 12 hours doing.” As a third crew member puts it: “This sounds crazy to say, but there were times when we were all standing around going: ‘Has this guy ever made a movie before?’”
