Woody Allen – prolific figure of motion pictures – and Amazon have signed a collaboration for the master’s first-ever television series. Allen is meant to become both writer and director of the fresh and unheard-of project, Deadline informs.
The project is at an incipient phase, with no exact information about the plot or the actors being shared. In fact, the collaboration between Woody Allen and Amazon Studios does not even bear a proper title yet, being named the ‘’Untitled Woody Allen Project’’. On the other hand, it is certain that Amazon ordered an entire season of a half-hour show to be coordinated by the great writer-director. The series will be the first of that kind attributed to the name of Woody Allen, but Deadline remarks that Allen previously penned an unaired sitcom pilot, The Laughmakers, in the year 1962 and for ABC. Although no exact release date of the upcoming television series was established either, Amazon informs that customers in the U.S., the U.K. and Germany will be able to watch the show starting with next year.
Roy Price, Vice President of Amazon Studios, talked about Woody Allen in laudatory terms, considering him one of the greatest directors ever: ‘’Woody Allen is a visionary creator who has made some of the greatest films of all-time, and it’s an honor to be working with him on his first television series.’’ Furthermore, he mentioned titles proving the life-long career in the industry of the American artist: ‘’From Annie Hall to Blue Jasmine, Woody has been at the creative forefront of American cinema and we couldn’t be more excited to premiere his first TV series exclusively on Prime Instant Video next year’’, thus promising that Amazon will mark a milestone with the fist–ever television series featuring Woody Allen.
After the introduction of Vice President Roy, it was time for Woody Allen to respond to the challenge of television series and he accomplished the task in a somehow modest and self-ironic manner, saying the following: “I don’t know how I got into this. I have no ideas and I’m not sure where to begin. My guess is that Roy Price will regret this.”