Woody Allen has never been the type of person who cared about what other people thought — I mean, just look at his personal life — so it’s quite surprising that Variety is reporting that Woody Allen’s follow-up to his ultra-successful Midnight In Paris has undergone a title change. It turns out that the original title, The Bop Decameron — which seemed to refer to Allen’s love for “bop” jazz and a 14th century Italian short story collection by Giovanni Boccaccio, which was made up of 100 separate stories — didn’t make sense to anybody but Woody himself. So he’s switching the title to the more recognizable Nero Fiddled, a reference to the Ancient Roman Emperor Nero’s piss-poor disaster management while Rome burned back in the first century AD.
Woody explained in a statement that he, “couldn’t believe how few people had heard of the Decameron, even in Rome, and the few that did assumed the movie was based on Boccaccio’s tales, which it’s not. Anyhow, I changed the title to ‘Nero Fiddled,’ which is the first time I’ve changed a title since my last minute switch of ‘Anhedonia’ to ‘Annie Hall.'”
The film stars Allen himself, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page and is made up of four vignettes set in Rome. No release date is set, but it’s likely to be in mid-to-late 2012.
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