Today
Amazon Studios announce
their biggest signing to-date when Academy award winning director and
writer Woody Allen inked a deal. The deal has Seattle-based Amazon
committing to atleast one season of a yet unnamed 30-minute series
written, directed and produced by Mr. Allen. The 30-minute series
will be a first for Mr. Allen who is best known for movies
like Sleeper,
Annie Hall, The purple rose of Ciaro and
Blue
Jasmine.
“Woody
Allen is a visionary creator who has made some of the greatest films
of all-time, and it’s an honor to be working with him on his first
television series,” said Roy
Price,
Vice President of Amazon Studios, in the press release announcing the
deal. “From Annie
Hall to
Blue
Jasmine,
Woody has been at the creative forefront of American cinema and we
couldn’t be more excited to premiere his first TV series
exclusively on Prime Instant Video next year.”
Writing
for Amazon is a return to Mr Allen's roots when he started his
amazing career 60
years ago as joke writer for television. After begin a
contributing writer on some of the biggest shows of early television
Mr. Allen went on to be a stand-up comic before writing Broadway
plays in the 1960s. In the closing years of the 1960s Woody Allen
started the next phase of his career where he found most most of his
fame as a writer, director and actor in over 50 movies.
In
the neurotic style we have come to identify Woody Allen with he made
the following statement about his signing with the Seattle-based
company, “I don’t know how I got into this. I have no ideas and
I’m not sure where to begin. My guess is that Roy
Price will
regret this.”
Amazon
is hoping to build on the recent success they have had when they won
their first two Golden Globe awards for the dark comedy Transparent.
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