Woody Allen averages one film a year, good and bad. He doesn’t really care if the films are well-received or if they make money. He’s always “on to the next one.” He’s worked out some kind of deal with Sony Pictures where they pay the relatively paltry production costs and no one gives Woody any notes. That deal has spawned Oscar-winning films like Vicky Christina Barcelona, Midnight In Paris and Blue Jasmine. That deal has also spawned deeply flawed films like To Rome With Love and Whatever Works.

Woody’s 2015 release will be Irrational Man, starring his latest young “muse,” Emma Stone (she was the lead in WA’s Magic In the Moonlight too). But even though Irrational Man isn’t even out yet, Woody has written the script for his next film and he’s already cast the leads: Jesse Eisenberg, Bruce Willis… and Kristen Stewart.

Woody Allen has begun casting his 2015 feature film, and he has set Jesse Eisenberg, Bruce Willis and Kristen Stewart to lead the ensemble, I’m told. No comment from the Allen camp. As usual, the film is untitled and there are no plot details, and it’s being produced by Letty Arsonson, Stephen Tenenbaum and Edward Walson, his usual collaborators. Allen might be the one director who, when he courts talent, doesn’t really show them a script. Everybody wants to work with him and they consider themselves lucky to be asked and if they’re available, they say yes almost always.

Allen’s next release, Irrational Man, stars Emma stone and Joaquin Phoenix and it will be released by Sony Pictures Classics July 24th.

[From Deadline]

Ten bucks says Kristen Stewart is Bruce Willis’ love interest in the film. Right? I know there’s a lot of hate towards Woody Allen these days, but I guess I’m able to compartmentalize how I feel about him as a person (he’s gross) and how I feel about him as an artist. I saw and loved both Midnight In Paris and Blue Jasmine. Jasmine especially seemed like an incredibly mature work from him. I’m not sure how he can go from charming wood nymph Emma Stone to… lip-biting artiste Kristen Stewart. We’ll see. It’s notable that despite what all of us in the cheap seats think about Woody, major actors still say “yes” to him when they’re offered a role.

PS… I think Kristen’s general twitchiness and awkwardness will actually fit pretty well with a Woody Allen-written heroine.

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