By RAY KELLY
Looping on scenes from The Other Side of the Wind took place this week at a Warner Bros. recording studio as producers complete Orson Welles legendary unfinished movie.
Automated dialogue replacement (ADR), or looping, is the common practice of re-recording dialogue post-filming to improve audio quality.
Given the circumstances in which Welles often filmed, it is not surprising that some audio polishing was needed.
Veteran voice actor Larry Cedar (Deadwood, Square One Television) lent his talent to the post-production work.
Cedar posted a photo from the recording session on Twitter Thursday and tweeted, “interesting gig today at Warner Bros laying in dialogue for the never completed Orson Wells 1980’s [sic] film THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND, starring John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, and of course, the great Peter Jason.”
Wellesnet reached out to Cedar, who said he looped dialogue uttered by the Marvin P. Fassbender character. (His tweet has since been deleted.)
An early edit of The Other Side of the Wind was shown to a select group of Hollywood insiders in a digital screening room at Ocean Screening in Santa Monica, California, on January 16. Editing on the movie began in mid-October.
Netflix has expressed a desire to premiere the movie at the Cannes Film Festival in May, though there has been no formal announcement from the studio or festival.
The streaming giant, which has more than 109 million subscribers worldwide, will also distribute a companion documentary by Oscar winner Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom).
Academy Award winner Bob Murawski (The Hurt Locker) has been editing The Other Side of the Wind.
Four-time Oscar winning sound man Scott Millan (Apollo 13, Gladiator) is handling the audio chores for producers Filip Jan Rymsza and Frank Marshall.
The movie takes place at the 70th birthday party of director Jake Hannaford (Huston), who is struggling to complete his comeback film during the rise of New Hollywood. The party is attended by young directors, like Brooks Otterlake (Bogdanovich), hangers-on and critics. Hannaford dies at the conclusion of the party. Welles’ movie recounts Hannaford’s final hours using a mix of 16mm and 35mm color and black-and-white film shot at the party, along with scenes from his unfinished movie. Oja Kodar, Robert Random, Cameron Mitchell, Mercedes McCambridge, Susan Strasberg and Edmond O’Brien round out the cast.
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