The first trailer for the Woody Allen scandal docuseries, ‘Allen v. Farrow,’ is here

A new docuseries, titled Allen v. Farrow, will take a more in-depth look at the decades-long scandal surrounding Oscar-winning filmmaker Woody Allen. The HBO series will look at the accusations of sexual abuse against Allen involving his then seven-year-old daughter Dylan, the custody trial between Allen and then-wife Mia Farrow and the revelation of the director’s relationship with Farrow’s estranged adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn.

The series, set to premiere on Feb. 21 at 9 p.m. ET, will also follow the controversial aftermath in the years following Soon-Yi and Allen’s marriage and the trauma on the family. Allen v. Farrow comes from award-winning investigative filmmakers Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering and Amy Heard.

The docuseries will include in-depth interviews with the Farrow family, including Mia, Dylan, Ronan, family friend Carly Simon, and investigators, experts and other witnesses. Some of the interviews will include people talking about the alleged events of Allen’s life for the very first time. It will also include archival footage, including home movies, court documents, police evidence and never-before-heard audiotapes. 

According to HBO, “The series also includes prominent cultural voices exploring Allen’s body of work in a broader context and reflecting on how public revelations about the personal lives of artists can lead to re-evaluations of their work.”

HBO notes that the series will also “include an intimate look at Farrow and Allen’s charmed courtship and emergence as one of Hollywood’s power couples, making thirteen influential films together over a decade. Over time, Allen becoming a father figure to Farrow’s children as well as their shared children. Yet, threaded throughout all of their professional success and personal achievements there were dark undercurrents at play.”

In the trailer for the series, Mia says, “Who on earth could believe that of Woody Allen? I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe it.” Another voiceover says, “The father is Woody Allen, writer, director, actor. The mother is Mia Farrow, his co-star and the mother of his three children.”

The teaser trailer shows a clip from Allen and Soon-Yi's wedding. “No matter what you think you know, it’s just the tip of the iceberg.”

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Dylan alleged Allen molested her as a child in the early 1990s. “And he sat behind me in the doorway, and as I played with the toy train, I was sexually assaulted. As a seven-year-old I would say, I would have said he touched my private parts,” Dylan said in an interview with CBS This Morning in January 2018. 

Allen was investigated but wasn’t charged, and he has long denied inappropriately touching Dylan. He has accused ex-wife, Mia, of brainwashing their daughter into believing she was molested.

After Dylan’s interview aired, Allen released a statement, saying, “When this claim was first made more than 25 years ago, it was thoroughly investigated by both the Child Sexual Abuse Clinic of the Yale-New Haven Hospital and New York State Child Welfare. They both did so for many months and independently concluded that no molestation had ever taken place. Instead, they found it likely a vulnerable child had been coached to tell the story by her angry mother during a contentious breakup.”

“Dylan’s older brother Moses has said that he witnessed their mother doing exactly that – relentlessly coaching Dylan, trying to drum into her that her father was a dangerous sexual predator,” Allen said in the statement. “It seems to have worked – and, sadly, I’m sure Dylan truly believes what she says. But even though the Farrow family is cynically using the opportunity afforded by the Time’s Up movement to repeat this discredited allegation.”

The 85-year-old filmmaker’s statement added: “That doesn’t make it any more true today than it was in the past. I never molested my daughter — as all investigations concluded a quarter of a century ago.”

Allen has repeatedly denied all accusations of sexual abuse and was never criminally charged. Soon-Yi married Allen on Dec. 23, 1997, and went on two raise two adopted daughters, who are both in college.

“I never laid a finger on Dylan, never did anything to her that could be even misconstrued as abusing her; it was a total fabrication from start to finish,” he wrote in his book, Apropos of Nothing, published last March. “I certainly didn’t do anything improper to her. I was in a room full of people watching TV mid-afternoon.”

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