The longest movie production in history that took 48 years to completeIt’s well known that making a Hollywood film can be a long and arduous process. The film was eventually released after an amazing 48 years in development. Eventually, Welles died in 1985, and Oja Kodar and Gary Graver, Welles’ cinematographer, tried to clear up the legal issues so a final cut could be made. Finishing somebody else’s film is difficult enough, but finishing an Orson Welles film is another kettle of fish entirely. In 2010, Peter Bogdanovich explained that the film was nearly completed, but the legal issues of “who owned what” still left its release in doubt.