Earlier this week Brad reported on several casting details for Woody Allen‘s next film, which I can only assume will be released in the summer of 2016, and today more details emerge as Oscar-winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and other crew members have joined the project.
Storaro is a three-time Oscar winner, taking home trophies for Apocalypse Now, Reds and The Last Emperor, and he was nominated a fourth time for his camera work on Dick Tracy. While he hasn’t done much of note in recent years this still represents a pretty interesting pairing, especially considering one of Allen’s fan sites, Woody Allen Pages, notes Allen’s next film will be set in the 1930s.
Also joining Allen’s crew is production designer Santo Loquasto, who has worked on numerous other Allen productions, most recently lending his hand and eye to Allen’s 2013 film Blue Jasmine and nominated for Oscars on three other Woody Allen productions (Zelig, Radio Days, Bullets Over Broadway). Of those I’m a big fan of Zelig, which is easily the best mockumentary ever made, in my opinion. Yeah, I said it.
Allen hasn’t had the easiest go of things the last couple years, between various personal issues coming to light and his last two movies being critically derided, but with a cast that includes Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Blake Lively, Bruce Willis, Parker Posey, Corey Stoll and others, perhaps he can turn things around a bit when his next film hits theaters in 2016. Then again, given how much people seem to dislike this year’s Woody Allen offering Irrational Man, perhaps the clock has finally struck midnight.
