Woody Allen, 86, announces plans to retire after completing his 50th feature film… as he says he plans to focus his remaining years on writing
Woody Allen announced Sunday that he will be retiring from filmmaking after completing his 50th feature.
The 86-year-old actor, writer and director plans to retire from filmmaking to focus on writing, according to the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia.
The director, who has denied sexual abuse allegations lodged against him by his daughter Dylan Farrow, is currently at work on his 50th and final film, titled Wasp 22.
The movie, which he compared to his late-career work Match Point, is being filmed entirely in French.
The end: Woody Allen announced Sunday that he will be retiring from filmmaking after completing his 50th feature; seen in 2019 in San Sebastian, Spain
Allen told the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia that he wanted to spend his twilight years writing.
His swansong will be a film set in Paris and shot entirely in French. Production is set to begin in a couple of weeks.
The writer and director claimed the plot would be ‘exciting, dramatic and also very sinister’ and described is as something similar to the thriller Match Point, which won the Goya award for Best European Film in 2006.
The Blue Jasmine director has chosen to work in Europe in recent years due to falling support in the US amid allegations of abuse in the #MeToo era.
Swansong: Allen’s swansong will be a film set in Paris and shot entirely in French. Production is set to begin in a couple of weeks.
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