Woody Allen, 86, announces plans to retire after completing his 50th feature film

Woody Allen announced Sunday that he will be retiring from filmmaking after completing his 50th feature.

The 86-year-old actor, writer and director plans to retire from filmmaking to focus on writing, according to the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia.

The director, who has denied sexual abuse allegations lodged against him by his daughter Dylan Farrow, is currently at work on his 50th and final film, titled Wasp 22.

The movie, which he compared to his late-career work Match Point, is being filmed entirely in French. 

Allen told the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia that he wanted to spend his twilight years writing.

His swansong will be a film set in Paris and shot entirely in French. Production is set to begin in a couple of weeks.

The writer and director claimed the plot would be ‘exciting, dramatic and also very sinister’ and described is as something similar to the thriller Match Point, which won the Goya award for Best European Film in 2006.

The Blue Jasmine director has chosen to work in Europe in recent years due to falling support in the US amid allegations of abuse in the #MeToo era.

Swansong: Allen’s  swansong will be a film set in Paris and shot entirely in French. Production is set to begin in a couple of weeks.

His former partner, Mia Farrow, accused him of sexually abusing his adopted daughter, Dylan, when the girl was seven.  Allen had already shocked the public when it became known he had begun a romantic relationship with Farrow’s then 17-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn. 

Farrow and Allen were together for more than a decade, from 1980 to 1992 and made 13 films together before he and the Hannah and her Sisters star split and he took up with his step-daughter. 

The director has always denied the allegations, and no charges were ever brought against him, although Dylan has never denied her claim of abuse.