Production Notes: Woody Allen's Bop Decameron in Rome, Photos

Woody Allen is in Rome shooting his latest production, The Bop Decameron. Italian newspapers have been brimming with “Where’s Woody?” stories, and tourists and citizens have been tweeting their sightings. Woody is very popular in Italy and while this is his first Rome-set picture, he has been a frequent visitor in the past with his New Orleans jazz band.
The Bop Decameron will be structured into four vignettes, two of which will be in Italian. Yesterday, Woody shot at Piazza Mattei with a predominantly Italian cast and crew. Jim Jarmusch used the same location in the Rome segment of Night on Earth, starring Roberto Benigni, who is also signed on forThe Bop.
The grips all wore Cinecittà-issued T-shirts, now faded, from Martin Scorsese’s 2002 film, Gangs of New York, which was shot at the Roman studio.There were two camera and dolly set-ups, one of them a mock-up for a 1930s-set, film-within-the-film, starring Antonio Albanese, Alessandra Mastronardi and Ornella Muti.
