A Los Angeles production company, Royal Road Entertainment, said on Tuesday that it had reached an agreement with the sometimes-warring parties to buy the rights. The producers say they aim to have it ready for a screening in time for May 6, the 100th anniversary of Welles’s birth, and to promote its distribution at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, Calif., next month. It had to negotiate a détente among the rights holders: Welles’s longtime companion and collaborator, Oja Kodar; his daughter and sole heir, Beatrice Welles; and an Iranian-French production company, L’Astrophore. During the last 15 years of his life, Welles, who died in 1985, worked obsessively on the film, which chronicles a temperamental film director — much like him — who is battling with the Hollywood establishment to finish an iconoclastic work. In addition to Huston, Bogdanovich, McBride and Kodar, the film co-stars Susan Strasberg, Norman Foster, Cameron Mitchell, Paul Stewart, Mercedes McCambridge, Edmond O'Brien, Robert Random and Lilli Palmer. Rymsza and Kaul secured the partial ownership rights held by the Paris film company Les Films de l'Astrophore and the late Mehdi Boushehri, brother-in-law of the Shah of Iran. He later clashed with Welles over spending and took control of the negative reels in France, which is why they remained in the suburban Paris warehouse. Welles had edited about 40 minutes of the film and a work print exists in Los Angeles. When I finally see it on the screen, then I will tell you that the film is done.” 
 
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 For decades, others tried to acquire rights to complete the film, including Mr. Bogdanovich, Showtime and Gary Graver, the director’s final cinematographer. German producer Jens Koethner Kaul and Filip Jan Rymsza of Royal Road Entertainment have teamed with producer Frank Marshall (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future), who was a line producer on The Other Side of the Wind in the early 1970s, to complete the film.
– When Orson Welles died in 1985, he left behind a film he'd been fighting to finish for 15 years. But The Other Side of the Wind never saw the light of day, and it has since become a bit of an obsession for movie buffs, who "consider it the most famous movie never released," the New York Times reports. Now, after decades of attempts by others to grab rights to the film, LA production company Royal Road Entertainment says it has an agreement to buy those rights—and producers plan to have the film ready for screening by May 6, which would be Welles' 100th birthday. As for the plot? It "(quite fittingly) tells the story of a director attempting to finish a masterpiece while clashing with the Hollywood system," according to the Hollywood Reporter. Welles ran into problems, including financing struggles (he took on TV roles to help and also gathered investors) and even the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the Republican reports. One of the aforementioned investors was Mehdi Bushehri, the brother-in-law of the Shah of Iran, and when he and Welles fought over spending, Bushehri took control of the 1,083 negative reels. The reels then stayed stashed in a Paris-area warehouse for years (and were lost briefly when the storage company went bankrupt last summer). But Welles did manage to get a 45-minute edited work print to California in 1975. Now Royal Road—which had to negotiate for the rights with Welles' daughter, his longtime companion, and a production company—will assemble the film from the negative reels with the help of Peter Bogdanovich, who stars in it, as well as notes Welles left behind. Click for the full story, or check out more of the best films that never got made.