Woody Allen seems to be trying to film in every single European country that will have him. This time it’s Italy!
While on the blower to Variety he told the trade that:
I love these sophisticated and civilized metropolises,” said Allen, who is expected in the Italian capital March 26 to play with his New Orleans jazz band at Rome’s Auditorium Conciliazione theater. Each time it’s been like writing a love letter to these places and projecting my feelings for them on the screen. I hope to be able to do the same with Rome.
So his reasoning is that it is down to wishing to write love letters to these great cities and yet he has also previously said that he goes where the money is. What this means is a large portion of funding he needs come with the condition that a significant wedge of the filming has to occur in the country funding him. This is why Allen hasn’t filmed in the US for quite sometime as his films don’t generally sell there so funding is scarce but in Europe we love him and throw money at his general direction. Now there will be other reasons but this one seems to me to be the overriding factor.
Anyway the film is yet untitled as it is still in the script stage but that won’t take long so the film is aiming for a Summer shoot.
Allen’s new film, YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER comes out March 18th and then the has another film in post-production, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS which won’t hit theatres for another 6+ months. Here’s the trailer for TALL DARK STRANGER.
