Is this a joke? How could Orson Welles have directed a movie that came out some 15 years after his death? It's possible, I suppose, but why is nobody else credited?
shareI just looked at the page for HBO's <Animated Epics: Moby Dick (2000)>, and no director is credited. Is it possible Welles recorded the dialogue for a version of the story he planned to make but never did, and the animation was done around that?
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"Is this a joke? How could Orson Welles have directed a movie that came out some 15 years after his death? It's possible, I suppose, but why is nobody else credited?"
Just goes to show that not even death can stymie the works of one as composed and daring as Orson Welles.
There's a difference between directing and editing and releasing.
Orson Welles directed the takes of this film while still very much alive (err...obviously!) however like quite a few of his projects it got entangled in various problems (usually money) and never made it to the finish line during his life time.
Orson Welles shot "The Other Side of the Wind" a few years before his death with Iranian money. The story goes he was almost completely finished editing the film for release when the Shah of Iran fell and the project was suspended. Almost 30 years later there is an entire Orson Welles film sitting in a vault which we will probably never see.
Unfortunately one of the marks of a real genius is a huge volume of unfinished work: look up Leonardo DaVinci some time!
The Rothschild's did it.
http://tinyurl.com/qgjudf5