‘Megalopolis’ Trailer Yanked After Fake Critic Quotes Pointed Out

Just hours after it premiered on Wednesday morning, the first trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s epic Megalopolis is being scrubbed from the internet.

Initial praise for the trailer’s stick-it-to-‘em attitude quickly turned to confusion as social media users began to point out that a segment made up of scathing quotes from critics about Coppola’s previous masterpieces seemed to have absolutely no basis in reality.

There is no evidence that...