Francis Ford Coppola Predicts ‘Live Cinema’ in Near Future

Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola predicts the future of cinema – and it’s going to be “live,” reported Deadline.

Coppola spoke at the Producer Guild’s Produced By conference in Burbank this past weekend in front of a large audience about the future of the digital age. “The cinema can be composed for the audience while they’re seeing it,” said the 75-year-old writer-director-producer. “Movies no longer have to be set in stone and can be composed and interpreted for different audiences that come to see it.”

While film has always been a recorded medium, he notes, live cinema remixes might be “30 per cent pre-recorded as the actors do it live.”

The Oscar-winner explained that a movie could be customized for its viewers. “Live cinema could be like live theater,” he said. “Streaming will be broadcasting.”

Coppola is currently writing a story about multiple generations of an Italian-American family. He illustrated that perhaps he may even tackle this project himself.

“Maybe I should put my money where my mouth is and do it live,” he said.