Woody Allen to shoot new film with Christoph Waltz in July

Press Trust of India  |  Madrid 

Embattled filmmaker will be shooting his next film, starring and Gershon, in

According to a statement by studio MediaPro, the film, which will be Allen's 51st feature, has been tentatively titled, "WASP2019".

The movie will also star Wallace Shawn, Sergi Lopez, and It will start shooting in July in

The film, described as a romantic comedy, will follow a married American couple who attend film festival only to fall in love with different people.

"She has an affair with a brilliant of and he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman living in the city. A romantic comedy that is solved in a funny way," the studio said.

The project will mark the fourth collaboration between the studio and the filmmaker after "Midnight in Paris", "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" and "Vicky Cristina Barcelona".

Jaume Roures of said, "This latest movie has all the ingredients to be right up there along with what we've become accustomed to Allen's talent: an intelligent script and a first-rate international cast."

Allen's long-delayed "Rainy Day in New York" is set to premiere at in

Dylan Farrow, Allen's adopted daughter with former wife Mia Farrow, has accused the of sexually abusing her in the early 1990s while she was a child.

She reiterated her claims in a 2014 Times op-ed and other articles.

The allegations caught steam in the wake of the #MeToo uprising in Hollywood.

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First Published: Wed, June 05 2019. 13:50 IST