In his debut graphic novel, legendary award-winning director Francis Ford Coppola brings Megalopolis to life with an all-new, reimagined story, adapted by Coppola with Chris Ryall and award-wining artist Jacob Phillips Megalopolis: An Original Graphic Novel is a unique 160-page graphic novel that presents an alternate version of Francis Ford Coppola’s visionary film, created and written by Francis Ford Coppola, adapted by Chris Ryall in collaboration with Coppola, and illustrated by Eisner Award–nominated cartoonist Jacob Phillips. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina, a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare. Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero, the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties, forcing her to discover what she truly believes humanity deserves. This graphic novel is a unique, standalone interpretation of the larger world Coppola created; or as Coppola himself put it, Megalopolis: An Original Graphic Novel is "a sibling of the film, rather than just an echo."

コッポラが半世紀をかけて温めた構想は、このグラフィックノベルという肉体を得て究極の結実を見せました。本作の核心は、理想と現状の衝突、つまり未来を夢見る勇気を問う哲学的な葛藤にあります。フィリップスの陰影豊かな筆致が、新ローマという都市の息遣いを鮮烈に描き出し、読者を壮大な思索の旅へと誘います。 映画の単なる複製ではなく双子の物語として存在する本作は、静止画ならではの詩的な対話が魅力です。映像の動的エネルギーに対し、書籍ではキャラクターの内面がより克明に掘り下げられています。両者を味わうことで、巨匠が描こうとした人類の明日という巨大なパズルの全貌が、鮮やかに立ち上がるはずです。