MUMBAI: Woody Allen has expressed his intention to change the title of his next feature film The Bop Decameron, set to be released in 2012.

The actor-producer-director cited people‘s unfamiliarity with Giovanni Boccaccio‘s The Decameron as the reason. The Rome-based film starring Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penelope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page will now be titled Nero Fiddled.

"I 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, " Allen has been reported to have said.

Nero Fiddled is being produced under the banner of Gravier Productions film produced by Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum.

This marks Allen‘s first film to be financed by Medusa Film, an Italian production and distribution company.