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In January 2011 Orson Welles' final unfinished film The Other Side Of The Wind was slowly creeping out of a complicated rights issue and on it's way to being completed.
Now, according to The New York Times, an LA production company has reached a deal with the rights.
Spending 5 years, Royal Road chased down the rights holders of the film to strike a deal to bring it to the big screen. However Royal Road had some competition - Welles’s long-time companion and collaborator, Oja Kodar; his daughter and sole heir, Beatrice Welles; and an Iranian-French production company, L’Astrophore.
On The Other Side Of The Wind stars John Huston as a Welles-ish/Hemingway-esque film director, throwing a party for his 70th birthday. The story flashes back and forth through events in his long life, and encompasses the points of view of journalists present at the party, who are intent on unravelling the director's macho persona. Peter Bogdanovich co-stars (much of the film was shot at his house, where Welles lived for two years), and the cast also includes Dennis Hopper, Claude Chabrol and Welles' long-term partner Oja Kodar.
The film was shot and edited intermittently in several locations such as Arizona, France, Holland, England, Spain, Belgium and MGM studios. Welles called it "96% complete" in 1972, and "on the brink of completion" in 1976. By 1979 Welles had edited about 40 minutes of the film, but then hit legal trouble over rights ownership. The unfinished negative has been in a vault in Paris ever since.
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