Woody Allen Will Film New Movie With Christoph Waltz, Gina

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Woody Allen has all the time been cherished in Europe, and for proof, you are able to do no higher than this: The Hollywood Reporter says the comedy and filmmaking legend shall be formally be taking pictures his subsequent film this summer time, regardless of turning into persona non grata in his homeland and scorned by a number of of his former actors. How? By making it in Spain.

This information isn’t precisely new: It’s been recognized for a while that he was prepping what shall be his 49th function in Europe. But now we all know particulars. For one, it should star Christoph Waltz, Gina Gershon, Wallace Shawn, plus European stars Sergei Lopez (Pan’s Labyrinth), Louis Garrel (The Dreamers), and Elena Anaya (Dr. Poison from Wonder Woman). The plot, as per THR:

The story facilities on a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival and get caught up within the magic of the occasion, the wonder and appeal of Spain and the fantasy of films. She has an affair with a superb French film director, and he falls in love with a lovely Spanish girl who lives there.

In different phrases, it seems like one in all Allen’s fizzier romantic-comedies, not his darkish night time of the soul philosophical blockbusters.