Legendary French writer/director Jean-Luc Godard will be the next respectable filmmaker to try his hand at shooting a film in 3D. The director, perhaps enchanted by the success of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (Scorsese being the last highly acclaimed director to venture into 3D) is reportedly already in production of his next film, Goodbye to Language 3D.

What makes this shocking is that the French auteur has predicated his entire career on being an iconoclast in the art world, and essentially giving the middle finger to the Hollywood system. So much so that, in 1967, less than a decade after pioneering the French New Wave, he said goodbye to narrative and cinematic filmmaking forever. For the past 40 years, he’s been making political films and video art, which are often elliptical and poorly received.

The director has a reputation for being secretive, and a bit of an asshole (surprise, he’s French!) so there’s not much known on his latest film, besides what he told The New Yorker in 2010:

“It’s about a man and his wife who no longer speak the same language. The dog they take on walks then intervenes and speaks. How I’ll do it, I don’t yet know. The rest is simple.”

Sounds just great, Jean-Luc. Spend an entire career challenging the conventions of Hollywood, and go out with 3D movie about a talking dog. Perhaps this isn’t Godard’s swan song, but at 81 and still making films, sounds like Godard is quickly losing cognition.