BERLIN – Woody Allen is doing his version of the grand European tour.
His Midnight in Paris is still in theaters, the director is still shooting The Bop Decameron, set in Rome, but Allen is already making plans to head to Germany for his next project.
Bavaria studios in Munich is in negotiations with Allen to play the backdrop for his next, still-untitled project, which would shoot next summer.
Bavaria is set to come on board as a co-financier for the film, said to be budgeted at around $17 million.
As is always the case with a Woody Allen film at this stage in pre-production, plot and potential cast are top secret.
Allen’s Midnight in Paris opened this year’s Festival de Cannes to rave reviews and has gone on to become the director’s most commercially successful film, earning more than $50 million in North America alone.
The Bop Decameron boasts an even-more impressive cast than Midnight headliners Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams, featuring Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Penelope Cruz and Alec Baldwin among its ensemble cast.
