The filmmaker was joined by Robert De Niro and Spike Lee at a screening of 'Megalopolis,' as he noted it was "prescient to do a movie about America as Rome because it's going to happen in a few months.

Renowned American director Francis Ford Coppola believes his harshly criticized science fiction film “Megalopolis” offers audiences a unique narrative vastly different from what they are accustomed to seeing.

"Our Senate and representatives are all manipulating their own power rather than running the country," Coppola said in a Q&A before the premiere of "Megalopolis" in New York City. "We're in danger of losing it.