Netflix has bought Orson Welles’s unfinished movie, The Other Side of the Wind. They plan to finance and distribute the film and will work with Peter Bogdanovich and Amblin Entertainment founder Frank Marshall, two of Welles’s early collaborators on the project he started in 1970.
The Other Side of the Wind was expected to be Welles’s comeback and a film that might outdo the success of Citizen Kane. While the film was not autobiographical, he did base it off of his personality and that of writer Ernest Hemingway’s. The synopsis states that the “movie was the story of a legendary director named Jake Hannaford, who returns to Hollywood from years of semi-exile in Europe with plans to complete work on his own innovative comeback movie.”
Welles originally planned to make it into two films and merge them together. The film’s production tale was originally recorded in Orson Welles’s Last Movie. To learn more about the film, visit Vulture from some extra tidbits.
