What do startup founders scrounging for venture funding have in common with the difficulties of filmmaker Sofia Coppola? As revealed in a profile in the New Yorker, Coppola, daughter of Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola and an Oscar-nominated filmmaker in her own right, has struggled to secure funding for her most ambitious cinematic projects over the last few years.
In conversation with writer Rachel Syme, Coppola explained that Apple TV+ pulled funding for a mini-series adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel The Custom of the Country in 2021. Vital funds for her 2023 film Elvis and Me, adapted from Priscilla Presley’s memoirs, also fell through at the last minute.
