Blake Lively set to join Woody Allen's unscripted next film

The Gossip Girl actress will star alongside Jesse Eisenberg and Bruce Willis

Blake Lively is to join the cast of Woody Allen’s next film.

The actress will join Allen newcomers Bruce Willis and Kristen Stewart, as well as repeat collaborator Jesse Eisenberg, according to Deadline.

Typical to Allen’s directing style, the film is currently untitled and there are no plot details.

Allen is casting the film ahead of the Cannes premiere of his upcoming film Irrational Man, starring Emma Stone and Joaquin Phoenix. The movie focuses on the relationship between a philosophy professor and a student.

Lively, who is best known for playing Serena van der Woodsen in Gossip Girl, can currently be seen in The Age of Adaline, in which she plays a woman who becomes ageless after being involved in car accident.

The 27-year-old is due to star in All I See Is You, about a blind woman’s relationship with her husband that changes when she regains her sight, before joining Allen’s film.

Allen’s career has been marked by a number of hits and missed of late. Blue Jasmine was praised as a triumphant “return to form” for the director in 2013, while his latest film Magic in Moonlight was not well received last year.