"Said film was Welles's follow-up to Citizen Kane, and studio RKO infamously snipped over half an hour from Welles's cut of the film and altered the ending. The lost footage was subsequently destroyed; in a 2018 essay, Jonathan Lethem said of the version of Ambersons that exists, "how can it be that the themes of the film so profoundly conspire with the ache its ruination induces in the viewer?""
"As The Hollywood Reporter noted, Showrunner announced that it plans to spend two years using AI to reconstruct the lost footage. However the process goes, the new version of The Magnificent Ambersons will not be commercially released, as Showrunner does not own the rights to the film. "The goal isn't to commercialize the 43 minutes, but to see them exist in the world after 80 years of people asking, 'might this have been the best film ever made in its original form?'""
The Other Side of the Wind was released in 2018, 32 years after Orson Welles's death. Many Welles films were altered by studio interference and later restored toward the filmmaker's original vision with help from scholars and technicians. Startup Showrunner plans a two-year effort to use AI and traditional film techniques to recreate lost footage from The Magnificent Ambersons, using archival set photos and grafting original cast faces onto newly filmed scenes. The reconstructed 43 minutes will not be commercially released because Showrunner does not own the film rights. The proposal has generated controversy about authenticity and restoration ethics.
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