OREANDA-NEWS Director and actor Nikita Mikhalkov said that he is working on a script for a new film. 

According to the source, during the gathering of the troupe of the Workshop 12 theater, the director stated that the likely name of the upcoming picture is "Russian vegetable". "God willing, there will be such a name," Nikita Sergeyevich concluded.

At the moment, nothing is known about Mikhalkov's new project. "Sunstroke," the Oscar-winning director's latest feature film, was released in 2014.

Earlier, Nikita Mikhalkov said that the popularity of the artists who left Russia was momentary. According to the author of "Tired of the Sun," Russian culture has not lost anything.