Woody Allen will work with Bruce Willis, Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg for his next movie, which is due to begin shooting later this year. This will be the first collaboration with the veteran director for Willis and Stewart, while Jesse Eisenberg is at his second collaboration after the 2012 movie To Rome With Love.
No details or title have been announced yet for the new Woody Allen project, which will be produced by his sister Letty Aronson, agent Stephen Tenenbaum and cable-TV tycoon Edward Walson, according to Guardian.
Allen’s next release, Irrational Man, stars Joaquin Phoenix as an academic who has an affair with a student played by Emma Stone, and will be released on July 24th.
After more than 40 films in half a century, the director also signed up with Amazon Prime to make a TV series for the video-on-demand service. This will be the small screen debut for the 79-year-old Oscar-winner who is determined to make a film every year. All that is known so far about the project is that will be in 30-minute episodes and will be available to subscribers to the Amazon TV service in the US, UK and Germany from 2016.
“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,” said Roy Price, vice president of Amazon Studios.
Woody Allen, who started his career by writing for Ed Sullivan and the Tonight Show, is the latest film-maker who gives TV a chance. Steven Soderbergh curently directs The Knick, a medical drama set in 1900, while David Fincher directed the first two episodes of House of Cardsfor Netflix and is now making Utopia for US cable channel HBO. In the early 1990s, David Lynch also swapped film for TV with Twin Peaks, which will be ressurect next year for the Showtime channel.