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=== Alleged conflicts on set ===
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Plaza spoke positively about Coppola's willingness to experiment and how sometimes "all of a sudden, he would have another idea. And then all of a sudden, we're shooting in a different location we didn't even plan to shoot. And then the whole day goes by and you're like, 'I had no idea any of that was going to happen{{'"}}.<ref name="DeadlineMay2024" /> Others described that approach as "exasperating" and "old-school", as Coppola was hesitant to decide how the film would look and would spend work days completing shots practically instead of relying on digital techniques. One crew member recalled, "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 (vehicle)|trailer]] for hours on end, wouldn't talk to anybody, was often smoking [[Cannabis (drug)|marijuana]]{{nbsp}}... 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." On Driver's first day on set, Coppola allegedly took six hours to achieve an effect by projecting an image on the side of Driver's head.<ref name="TheGuardian2024" /> Coppola denied smoking marijuana on set, adding that he had been avoiding the substance ever since his weight loss in 2017.<ref name="WSJ-Sept26"/>
On December 9, 2022, Coppola fired most of the [[visual effects]] team, with the rest of the department, including supervisor Mark Russell, soon following. In January 2023, reports indicated the budget ballooned higher than its initial $120 million, which ''The Hollywood Reporter'' compared to Coppola's history of challenging productions, most notoriously ''Apocalypse Now''. Due to an alleged "unstable filming environment", a claim Coppola and Driver contested, other crew members exited the film, including production designer Beth Mickle and art director David Scott, along with the [[art department]].<ref name="Budget" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2023/01/francis-ford-coppola-no-truth-to-apocalypse-on-megalopolis-1235216222/ |title=Francis Ford Coppola: No Truth to Apocalypse on ''Megalopolis'' |last=Fleming |first=Mike Jr. |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |date=January 10, 2023 |access-date=January 10, 2023 |archive-date=January 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110203401/https://deadline.com/2023/01/francis-ford-coppola-no-truth-to-apocalypse-on-megalopolis-1235216222/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Coppola replaced Russell with his nephew, Jesse James Chisholm, over a dispute over "live special effects", which he completed with his son and second unit director [[Roman Coppola]] as they had with ''Bram Stoker's Dracula''.<ref name="Production Notes" />{{rp|9}}
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