8 Books That Inspired Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis

The legendary Godfather and Apocalypse Now director and five-time Academy Award winner, Francis Ford Coppola, just unveiled a wildly ambitious passion project at Cannes: Megalopolis. These are the eight books he credits with influencing the film. Among the list are three books from the late great anthropologist and social critic, David Graeber, including his posthumously published 2021 tome, The Dawn of Everything, cowritten with David Wengrow. Also making an appearance is Herman Hesse’s final novel, The Glass Bead Game, and Francis Fukuyama’s The Origins of Political Order, which Coppola credits with providing an “opposing view” to his own interpretation of human history.