To Rome with Love (Woody Allen, 2012)

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AWA · #1 Post by **AWA** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:26 pm

Looks as though Woody will be shooting in Rome later this year.

ETA: 6/22

Confirmed by Woody himself.

He has previously mentioned this next film will be a "political film".

With all the Berlusconi news and with a Rome confirmation now, I think one might be able to determine what Woody means when he says "political", perhaps.

MHerzog · #2 Post by **MHerzog** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:49 am

Penélope Cruz is set to star in the upcoming Rome Project.

She's actually fluent in Italian, so this makes sense.

#3 Post by **domino harvey** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:30 pm

Alec Baldwin also confirmed, and Jesse Eisenberg reportedly being wooed as well-- the man knows what he's doing!

MHerzog · #4 Post by **MHerzog** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:07 pm

Ellen Page joins. Jesse Eisenberg is confirmed...

#5 Post by **domino harvey** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:43 pm

Holy smokes!

#6 Post by **mfunk9786** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 1:18 am

All we need are Amy Adams and Michelle Williams and we have a Domino yahtzee.

AWA · #7 Post by **AWA** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 6:23 am

Rome project is titled already: "The Wrong Picture"

MHerzog · #8 Post by **MHerzog** » Sat May 07, 2011 10:30 pm

Roberto Benigni joins the Rome project.

Also, the film is not called The Wrong Picture. Still "Woody Allen Summer Project 2011"

Markson · #9 Post by **Markson** » Mon May 09, 2011 4:54 pm

Great news: Woody's going to appear in the Rome film(!)

MHerzog · #10 Post by **MHerzog** » Wed May 11, 2011 6:37 pm

The Rome project has "Bop Decameron" as its working title.

Giovanni Boccaccio's "The Decameron" is set to inspire the vignette-like structure of this film.

With Darius Khondji back as DP and the Decameron inspiration, I'm hoping we have a Fellini homage on our hands.

#11 Post by **domino harvey** » Wed May 11, 2011 6:55 pm

I loved the old title but man, the new ones rules so hard

AWA · #12 Post by **AWA** » Wed May 18, 2011 4:59 am

Some great news - Woody has confirmed the rumors that Judy Davis will make her first appearance in a Woody film since 1998's Celebrity in the upcoming Rome project. Possibly playing his wife.

#13 Post by **domino harvey** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:03 pm

mfunk9786 wrote:All we need are Amy Adams and Michelle Williams and we have a Domino yahtzee.

Well, we know he already cast Michelle Williams once before but the project fell through.

In his nonstop quest to get me to love his movie even more than usual, Woody Allen has also cast Greta Gerwig and Alison Pill for Bop Decameron

#14 Post by **Jeff** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 2:36 pm

Article in The Guardian cements the Fellini connection.

Some amateur video of The Woodman directing and Roberto Benigni taking off his pants.

Roger Ryan · #15 Post by **Roger Ryan** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 2:37 pm

Allen has previously paid homage to Italian directors like Fellini in an episode in his 1972 film Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, where he plays a smooth Italian troubled by the fact his wife can only have satisfying sex in public.

I'm surprised the article didn't mention STARDUST MEMORIES, the most blatantly Fellini-esque of Allen's films up to this point.

AWA · #16 Post by **AWA** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:29 am

Roger Ryan wrote:Allen has previously paid homage to Italian directors like Fellini in an episode in his 1972 film Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, where he plays a smooth Italian troubled by the fact his wife can only have satisfying sex in public.

I'm surprised the article didn't mention STARDUST MEMORIES, the most blatantly Fellini-esque of Allen's films up to this point.

That, and the Italian segment in "Everything..." was more a take on Antonioni films (according to Woody himself) than Fellini.

Radio Days was a pretty overt Fellini homage as well. Would've been even more so had they left some of the hyper-Fellini / Amarcord-esque scenes in the film, most notably the original opening with the entire neighbourhood gathered on the beach to watch an escape artist - the most elaborate and expensive shot in the film and it never even made it to the screen!

#17 Post by **domino harvey** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:07 am

Boooooo: this is now called Nero Fiddled

“I couldn’t believe how few people had heard of the Decameron, even in Rome,” Allen said in a statement. “And the few that did assumed the movie was based on Boccaccio’s tales, which it’s not. Anyhow, I changed the title to ‘Nero Fiddled,’ which is the first time I’ve changed a title since my last minute switch of ‘Anhedonia’ to ‘Annie Hall.’”

knives · #18 Post by **knives** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:17 am

That's a real sad statement on the populace too.

#19 Post by **Matt** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:47 am

Well, look how well things turned out for the other movie he renamed.

#20 Post by **domino harvey** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:49 am

Never heard of it. This is that young man who made September, correct?

Cold Bishop · #21 Post by **Cold Bishop** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 2:56 am

The Sam Shepard film? I remember hearing about it, but it never came our way.

Lemmy Caution · #22 Post by **Lemmy Caution** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 7:16 am

I assume that the title Bop Decameron involved a reference to Tadd Dameron, a key composer and arranger of the bop era. He was one of those important transitional figures that all the musicians admired and worked with, but whose public visibility was fairly low. His later drug addiction, time in the pen, bad health and relatively early death didn't win him any Downbeat polls, while adding to his tragic mystique.

Anyway, it would have been interesting to see Woody utilize more post-war jazz, than he usually does, perhaps even mellow bop, if that's where he was headed. I'm pretty sure I've read years back that Woody is a Dameron fan (he's also partial to Randy Weston).
Of course if you put Decameron in the title, it's not surprising that folks might think the film has some relationship to, well, The Decameron.
He should have stuck with the original title.

Then again, I also wish Woody would spend more time on a given project and make a good film every two years instead of an okay film every year. Woody is sure successful at making a quantity of films.

#23 Post by **Jeff** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:33 am

Sony Classics has picked up the U.S. rights.

SamLowry · #24 Post by **SamLowry** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 5:02 am

He has previously mentioned this next film will be a "political film".

Well if he doesn't like this title, I would like to suggest:

Everything you always wanted to know about bunga bunga parties but were afraid to ask

I think that would have even more name recognition than either Nero or Decameron.

rohmerin · #25 Post by **rohmerin** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 3:58 pm

Interesting supporting Italian cast: Ornella Muti, the most beautiful woman (ever) very well preserved at 60 years old; Antonio Albanese, good drama (Taviani's Tu ridi, Days and clouds) actor who stars comercial comedies; Ricardo Scamarcio, the new national sex syboll, he is absolutely hot; Isabella Ferrari (seen in Caos calmo, Saturn in opposition, etc) who owns the best tits in Europe with the permission of Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi.

What a pity W.Allen is not interested in offer flesh (Match point was a missing oportunity when they nail under the rain), with that hot cast + Penelope, and the refferences to Bocaccio or / and Pasolini's decameron, come on, it's Italy, show us sex.

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