Decades of unseen footage will finally complete this legendary Orson Welles masterpiece

Film archives are pulling back the curtain to provide footage of an unfinished Orson Welles piece that he worked on for decades.

Spanish, French, Italian, and German sources are working together to allow the reconstruction of lost works that the “Citizen Kane” writer started production on in 1957.

‘Welles’ death in 1985 at age 70 meant he could not finish what was more than 30 years of work.’

Welles started the project in the 1950s in Mexico and continued to compile scenes and make changes in 1961 and 1969, Wellesnet reported. This footage was the start of Welles’ work on a film adaptation of “Don Quixote,” the 17th-century book that is widely credit with more than 500 million sales.

The deaths of multiple actors did not prevent Welles from