---
title: "Episode #437 \u2013 Megalopolis, with Roman Mars"
url: "https:\/\/www.flophousepodcast.com\/2024\/11\/episode-437-megalopolis-with-roman-mars\/"
date: "2024-11-09T13:00:00+00:00"
episode_number: 437
movie: "Megalopolis"
guests: "Dan McCoy, Elliott Kalan, Roman Mars, Stuart Wellington"
---

# Episode #437 – Megalopolis, with Roman Mars

You KNEW this episode was coming, and we got to it as soon as we could! We discuss Francis Ford Coppola’s defiantly personal, defiantly incomprehensible, personal-fortune-destroying [Megalopolis](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10128846/)! And for such a mega_flop_olis episode we enlisted the help of Roman Mars, a man who knows a thing or two about architecture and design, and who’s currently [co-hosting a podcast series with Elliott about _The Power Broker_](https://99percentinvisible.org/club/)_,_a book about Robert Moses (clearly an inspiration for Adam Driver’s “what if Robert Moses but not _totally_ evil” character)!

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 [Wikipedia page for Megalopolis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopolis_(film))

 Recommended in this episode:

 Dan: [Lost Highway (1997)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116922/)

 Stu: [Anora (2024)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28607951/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)

 Elliott: [You and Me (1938)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030996/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_6_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_you%2520and%2520me)

 Roman: [Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102015/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_hearts%2520of%2520da)

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