NEW YORK — Orson Welles’s last film may finally be nearing release.
The New York Times reported Wednesday that Los Angeles-based Royal Road Entertainment has agreed to buy the rights to Welles’ “The Other Side of the Wind.” Producers are planning to unveil it in time for the centennial anniversary of Welles’ birth on May 6.
Actor and movie director Orson Welles appears at a news conference in Paris in this 1982 photo. The Associated Press
The semiautobiographical film is about a movie director, played by John Huston, feuding with Hollywood. Welles shot the movie in 1971 and spent the rest of his life editing it, before dying in 1985.
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