Controversial director Woody Allen has revealed his plans to retire shortly after completing his 50th film, announcing that his next film will be his last. Tsshe Oscar-winning director and screenwriter told a Spanish newspaper in an interview published on Saturday that he plans to make his next film his last, and that he will then focus more on writing as he would like to work on a novel. want to work.
Woody Allen plans to retire from filmmaking after 50th film to ‘focus on writing’
According to The Hollywood Reporter, he said his 50th and final film, which he had previously said will be shot in France later this year, will be similar in tone to his 2005 thriller. Match Point. “My idea is basically not to make more films and concentrate on writing”,
Allen told the publication. Earlier this year, Allen shared his plans to quit filmmaking in an Instagram Live conversation with Alec Baldwin, saying the “thrills have gone” for him with filmmaking. “I’ll probably make at least one more movie, but a lot of the thrill is gone because it doesn’t have the whole cinematic effect,” Allen said during the chat. “When I started making a movie, it went to movie theaters in the all over the country and hundreds of people came to see it in big groups on a big screen.Now you make a movie and you get a few weeks in a movie house – maybe six weeks, two weeks or whatever – and then it goes straight to streaming or directly to Pay-Per-View.
“So, it’s not as much fun for me as it was,” he added. “I don’t get the same pleasure from making a movie and putting it in an arthouse.” Allen’s career has been marred by the allegation, which he has long denied, that he sexually assaulted his daughter Dylan Farrow when she was 7. Following the allegations, as the report suggests, Amazon Studios canceled its $68 million deal for four films, and the director’s recent films have struggled to find distribution.
The four-time Academy Award winner is currently working on his 50th and now final feature film titled Wasp 22, an entirely French-language project filmed next month in Paris with a cast of local actors. Compare the film with the one from 2005 Match Point, Woody Allen described the upcoming outing as “exciting, dramatic and also very sinister”.
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