Woody Allen has announced that he will be retiring after completing his 50th feature film.
The 86-year-old director and writer revealed the news on Sunday and said he will be focusing on his writing.
According to the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, the director is thinking of writing a novel.
The contentious star is currently working on his 50th movie, Wasp22.
Wasp22, which is shot almost entirely in French, has a September production date, according to Production Weekly.
It will also be filmed in Paris, France.
No proper synopsis or additional cast details have been revealed as of yet.
Woody has said the plot of the upcoming film is ‘exciting, dramatic and also very sinister'.
He described it as something similar to his thriller Match Point, which received a Goya award for Best European Film in 2006.
Two years ago, Woody labelled Hollywood actors who have denounced him as “self-serving” as he said they merely tried to be “fashionable” with their protest against him.
He has had allegations of sexual abuse and molestation thrown his way by adopted daughter Dylan Farrow, 37, but has vehemently denied all of them.
The allegations resulted in many Hollywood actors turning their backs on the filmmaker, with them refusing to work with him.
Speaking to The Guardian, he labelled the molestation claims as "laughable rubbish".
He said: "The actors have no idea of the facts and they latch on to some self-serving, public, safe position.
"Who in the world is not against child molestation?"
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Woody - who has never been charged with a sexual offence - then said he had hoped the allegations would go away over time, telling the publication: "I thought people would see it as laughable rubbish right away and from day one I never really took it seriously. I mean, it’s like being confronted with a story that I murdered six people with a machine gun.
"You can give them the facts over and over. But the facts don’t matter. For some reason, emotionally, it’s important for them to buy into the story.”
Dylan has long claimed that she was molested by the star during his relationship with her mother Mia Farrow in the 1980s.
He dubbed the protests against him as "silly", saying: "That’s how actors and actresses are, and [denouncing me] became the fashionable thing to do, like everybody suddenly eating kale."
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