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Hope we have not wasted our money!


MARSHALL: It’s not going as well as I had hoped to be honest. It’s pretty slow, although we’re inching up every day. We’ve raised about 25% of what we’d like to raise. I think it’s been great that so many people have joined in on the campaign, and I’ve just gotta get to a point where I can get the last bit of the rights and then I’m able to get the negative out of the lab and print, and put together maybe fifteen, twenty minutes of the beginning of the movie that makes sense, so then I can get a distributor on board to help us finish the rest of post-production. The hiccup here is, yes there’s forty minutes of cut footage by Orson, but it’s randomly throughout the movie, so there’s no real way to say to somebody there’s a movie that extends here, so that’s what I’m trying to get to.

Sure. If I’m not mistaken, you were on set of the movie. You helped bring it to life back then.

MARSHALL: Yes, I mean, talk about the thrill of a lifetime. To be there with Orson Welles every day, twenty-four hours a day and see his genius at work was something I’ll never forget and really keeps inspiring me to help get this last movie of his finished.

I’m obviously a huge cinephile and Orson’s work is staggering. It is amazing to me that there is something that he made that could be still seen all of these years later.

MARSHALL: Yes and I think unfortunately the stigma that he had back then seems to still be there that people don’t get it. They don’t trust the fact that he was this genius and the guy that made Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, and The Magnificent Ambersons, and there might be this fantastic movie in there. Whatever it is, we should preserve it for cinema history, no matter what it comes out like.

I am in full agreement, and I really hope this comes together. Whatever I can do to help.

MARSHALL: If you could just keep sending people to the Indiegogo campaign, that’s the best way for everybody to help. And I have to say that knowing Orson as I did, he would be tickled pink that the real people, fans of the movies are going to help get his last movie made.
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They don't yet have all of the rights???????

I'm going to assume that Marshall misspoke or was misquoted. The indiegogo page says --

"After his passing, three decades of legal feuds ensued, until 2014, when the rights issues were finally resolved by Producers Filip Jan Rymsza, Frank Marshall and Jens Koethner Kaul. This brings us to now."

As they're raising funds based on the representation that they have already secured the rights, I'm going to assume that that's true. If it's not, Marshall et al have some serious explaining to do.




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They don't yet have all of the rights???????
I'm going to assume that Marshall misspoke or was misquoted.


Well, not really. What he is talking about is Oja Kodar needs to sign a form to release the film to Marshall and the team that is trying to finish the film from where it is being held in France. They appeared to have a verbal agreement that this would take place once Oja had received the $1.4 million she agreed to for them to take the film. That's where it gets sticky as Kodar claims a deadline passed and she has not yet received her money and so she wants to go back to the negotiating table for more money. Claims are she wants to up her payment to over $2 million.

Oja also has made some hostile statements claiming she would prefer the film is never released or completed. The issue is there is likely not much money to be made on this film. So, after paying Oja and the costs to complete the film and then distribute it they would likely be lucky to break even on this. Plus it is probably going to take a number of years to recoup the cost so Oja actually should be thrilled about getting her $1.4 million upfront because she at least walks away a million and a half ahead of the game.

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All that should have been cleared up before asking for public funding.


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What a shame this film is being withheld from the world. I have read it's Beatrice who has stopped the process and also that it's Olga's doing. It's been on the shelf for far too long.

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