For those who worried that the outraged response to Antichrist might have put Lars von Trier off making movies for a time, their fears can now be put to rest. The Danish director last week announced his return to the fray with Planet Melancholia, which comes billed as a "psychological drama-cum-disaster movie".

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the English-language production will shoot on locations in Germany and Sweden next summer and is budgeted at around €5m (£4.6m).

Producer Peter Aalbaek Jensen was vague on the script details, but claimed that Planet Melancholia would provide a mix of spectacular cinematic imagery with Dogme-style handheld camerawork. For good measure, he added that it would be "romantic, in a Lord Byron sort of way".

Von Trier scandalised the Cannes film festival earlier this year with his latest film Antichrist, which featured a scene in which the heroine hacks at her own genitals with a pair of rusty scissors. His other work includes Dogville, in which Nicole Kidman's character is subjected to a gang rape, and the death-row musical Dancer in the Dark, starring Björk.

Last week he restricted his comments on the new film to a terse, four-word statement: "No more happy endings!"