Having become a persona non grata in Hollywood, the 89-year-old American director is preparing to shoot his next feature film, whose provisional title is Wasp 2026, in Madrid, as El País revealed on Thursday. The newspaper specifies that the city will finance it with 1.5 million euros “as part of a promotional campaign for the capital.” In fact, the film must mention Madrid in its credits.
A little over two years ago, the master of comedy and social satire came out stroke of luckwith Niels Schneider, Melvil Poupaud, Lou de Laagé and even Valérie Lemercier, filmed in Paris, in the fall of 2022. The film, very poorly criticized by the French press, had only grossed just over 137,000 admissions in France.
It must be said that the filmmaker of manhattan EITHER Annie Hall has suffered controversy in recent years and has been rejected by almost the entire Hollywood profession – he has not filmed in the United States since a rainy day in New York in 2017. His adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, notably accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was a child. Woody Allen has always denied the facts and has never been convicted.
Recently, he generated controversy after participating by videoconference in the Moscow International Film Week at the end of August. The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated at the time that this collaboration constituted “a shame and an insult to the sacrifice of Ukrainian actors and filmmakers who were killed or injured by Russian war criminals.”
On Wednesday Woody Allen released his first novel. What happened to Baum? (Stock), which tells of the descent into hell of an elderly Jewish writer in New York, left to him by his editor.
Source: BFM TV
