No Longer a Dream, Corbiau Brings Unfinished Orson Welles Project to Life

After a mention that an unproduced Kubrick project was going to see the light of day, another filmmaking legend might be making a comeback from the dead. After a mostly dormant film career over the past two decades, Gérard Corbiau, best known for 1994’s Farinelli, is according to Production Weekly, going to direct Susan Sarandon, Martin Sheen & Cliff Curtis in The Dreamers (expect a title change) – which is according to recent legend, Orson Welles’ unfinished last project. Oddly it was in 94, that Peter Bogdanovich tinkered around with the idea of directing the project.

Combing around the web, I found a comprehensive wiki entry with an explanation of the troubled film that Welles failed to get off the ground in 1979. I also found out that Sirocco Films hired scribe Eric Rognard (Le renard et l’enfant) to write the project which in a nutshell is based on an unfinished 1979 film from Orson Welles which was originally based on two stories from the Karen Blixen book Seven Gothic Tales (1934).