Wow, I can't wait to see that! >In a series of Instagram posts in July 2023, Coppola stated that the film had been heavily influenced by the following books:

Wow, I can't wait to see that! >In a series of Instagram posts in July 2023, Coppola stated that the film had been heavily influenced by the following books: Bullshit Jobs, Debt: The First 5000 Years, and The Dawn of Everything, all works of the anthropologist David Graeber; The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse;[7] The Chalice and the Blade by sociologist Riane Eisler; The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama; The War Lovers by Evan Thomas; and The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt.[8]