First Trailer For Orson Welles' Recently Completed Film THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND
It's pretty incredible that after all these years we are going to get to watch a brand new film from legendary director Orson Welles (Citizen Kane). It also may end up being one of the best films of the year!
Welles started shooting the film in the 1970s and was working on completing it up until the time he passed away in 1985. Unfortunately, the movie was plagued with financial problems and 96% of the film was reportedly completed.
Frank Marshall, who was the production manager during the original shoot, brought on a team of editors to go through more than 1,000 reels of film negatives that were sitting in a Paris vault until March 2017, when Netflix acquired it. They used that footage and a ton of notes and other materials that Welles left behind to complete the film.
Today the first trailer for the film has been released ahead of its premiere at the Venice Film Festival and it looks fantastic! It's amazing that Welles' final film has actually been completed and I can't wait to see it! Here's the synopsis that was shared:
In 1970, legendary director Orson Welles (CITIZEN KANE) began filming what would ultimately be his final cinematic opus with a cast of Hollywood luminaries including John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg and Welles’s partner during his later years, Oja Kodar. Beset by financial issues, the production ultimately stretched years and gained notoriety, never to be completed or released. More than a thousand reels of film negatives languished in a Paris vault until March of 2017, when producers Frank Marshall (who served as Welles’s production manager during his initial shooting) and Filip Jan Rymsza spearheaded efforts to have the film completed after over 40 years.
Featuring a new score by Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand and reassembled by a technical team including Oscar-winning editor Bob Murawski, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND is Orson Welles’s vision fulfilled. It tells the story of grizzled director J.J. “Jake” Hannaford (Huston), who returns to Los Angeles after years in self-exile in Europe with plans to complete work on his own innovative comeback movie. Both a satire of the classic studio system and the New Hollywood that was shaking things up, Welles’s last artistic testament is a fascinating time capsule of a now-distant era in moviemaking as well as the long-awaited “new” work from an indisputable master.
The Other Side of the Wind will be released on Netflix on October 2nd.