With 27 rooms and suites all designed by Coppola, the hotel also features a state-of-the-art production facility with two edit suites with laser projection and Meyer Sound 2.1 monitoring, two edit bays, offices, ADR recording room and a conference room.
Last year, Georgia’s film and television industry generated $4.3 billion. Peachtree is 15 minutes from Trilith Studios, where numerous Marvel projects have shot.
Coppola said he was inspired while filming his latest project “Megalopolis” in Atlanta and wanted to create something that offered hospitality and the functionality needed to make films on any scale. “When I didn’t want to think about the movie, I would think about this hotel, and when I didn’t want to think about the hotel, I’d think about the movie,” Coppola said.
Formerly a Days Inn Motel, the filmmaker remodeled the lodgings with post-production in mind. “We had to build six suites. And then we needed ‘Mini-Suites.’ We had to have special effects facilities and rehearsal facilities, even a little stage that we could shoot in…which we did shoot in on this picture,” Coppola said.
Coppola, who spent over 16 months in Peachtree, conducted all of his post-production at the hotel and even did some reshoots for “Megalopolis” there. He noted the hotel is equipped with most things productions would need, from fitting rooms to a recording studio and 30-seat screening room. The hotel offers a crew the ability to “live and intimately connect,” the filmmaker said.
