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What historical event partly inspired Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis?

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Francis Ford Coppola, with a beard, sits on a camera dolly surrounded by crew and actors on the set of The Godfather: Part II, with storefronts in the background. — Francis Ford Coppola American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola won the Oscar for best director for *The Godfather: Part II* (1974).

Francis Ford Coppola’s 2024 film Megalopolis was partly inspired by the unsuccessful insurrection of the aristocrat Catiline during the late Roman Republic.1