Woody Allen Announces His Retirement From Filmmaking

UPDATE: After stories of his retirement went public, Woody Allen‘s spokesman released this statement: “Woody Allen never said he was retiring, not did he say he was writing another novel. He said he was thinking about not making films as making films that go straight or very quickly to streaming platforms is not so enjoyable for him, as he is a great lover of the cinema experience. Currently, he has no intention of retiring and is very excited to be in Paris shooting his new movie, which will be the 50th.”

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Woody Allen recently announced that he’s done with filmmaking. While spending some time in Europe directing his most recent film, he spoke with a Spanish newspaper called La Vanguardia. According to his interview there, he’s planning on getting out of the film trade to pursue writing extra significantly. Allen has revealed quite a lot of memoirs, in addition to some collections of comedic musings.

Allen’s previous is difficult, to say the least. He rose to prominence as a author and slapstick comedian, then grew to become an enormous star within the Seventies directing his personal motion pictures, like Bananas, Annie Hall, and Manhattan. He was an in depth inventive and romantic accomplice of Mia Farrow from 1980 to 1996, who co-starred in lots of his motion pictures throughout that interval. They ended their relationship, and Allen dated and later married Soon-Yi Previn, Farrow’s adopted daughter.

During Allen and Farrow’s breakup, he was first accused of sexually abusing his adopted daughter Dylan. Allen denied the accusations, and was by no means charged with against the law. Although the accusations garnered monumental publicity within the Nineties, Allen was in a position to proceed his profession with little or no interruption all via the last decade and into the 2000s. But within the mid-2010s, Dylan renewed her accusations towards him. This time. the American movie enterprise largely minimize ties with Allen; again in 2018, Allen’s movie A Rainy Day In New York was set to debut via Amazon Studios, however they pulled it when concern about his previous scandals boiled over. In 2020, his memoir, Apropos of Nothing, was canceled by Hachette, though it was later acquired and launched by one other writer.

His subsequent movie, Wasp 22, is claimed to be his final. He likens it to his movie Match Point, and that it could be “dramatic, serious, and also very sinister.”