Costner, Coppola and the merits and risks of directors bankrolling their own films
As the curtain closes on Cannes, much of the discourse has surrounded two films: Kevin Costner’s dizzyingly ambitious ‘Horizon: An American Saga’ and Francis Ford Coppola’s long-term passion-project ‘Megalopolis’. Both were bankrolled by their directors after struggling to secure funding from major studios. Will betting everything pay off?