It’s not just one kind of action flicks that are going 3D. It seems it’s time for some three dimensional erotica, or so says veteran Italian erotic film director Tinto Brass.

Brass has just announced that he will produce what he is calling the world’s first-ever 3D pornographic production. This is according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Brass, 76, is best known for the 1979 film Caligula, which he directed in collaboration with noted author Gore Vidal and magazine publisher Bob Guccione, and from which he later became disassociated. Caligula starred an illustrious cast that included Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Peter O’Toole and Sir John Gielgud but it was plagued with production problems and on-set squabbles, caused controversy for its overtly sexual content and was critically panned. Brass’s other films include 1975’s Salon Kitty, about a Berlin brothel used for espionage purposes in WW II and 1992’s Cossi Fan Tutti, a sex comedy loosely based on the Mozart/da Ponte opera.

THR reports that Brass said he plans to “revisit an abandoned project about a Roman emperor that was ruined by Americans, and go from there,” a likely reference to Caligula.

Brass also said the time is right for 3D technologies to be used to create an erotic film, noting that the project, which he claims will be the world’s first 3D erotic film, will also be the first 3D film of any type made in Italy. This means Italy’s first 3D movie offering will be (soft core) porn.

Brass said he would start work on casting and the script immediately, and that he plans to start filming in May or June.