Almost 30 years after his death, cineastes could finally take a glimpse of screen legend Orson Welles' final directorial effort.

Royal Road Entertainment, an LA-based production firm, managed to snag the rights to the Welles' unreleased 1970s drama, The Other Side of the Wind, the New York Times reports.

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Royal Road is actually planning to release the picture in time for Welles' 100th birthday -- May 6, 2015.

Welles conceived the film as a satirical look at Hollywood. The movie stars late John Huston, himself an Oscar-winning director and father of equally-acclaimed actress Angelica Huston, who plays as the aging and washed out moviemaker yearning to revive his career.

Peter Bogdanovich (another real-life director) and Susan Strasberg, whose character was said to be inspired by prominent Welles film  critic Pauline Kael, also joins the cast.

Welles started out as a stage performer, until he found success in radio plays.

He was only 23 year old when he terrified nearly all of America with his adaptation of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, which aired on CBS Radio. Listeners have almost gone crazy believer they were actually hearing actual reports of an alien invasion as Welles' radio play progressed.

It was in 1942 when Welles made the film (and performance) of a lifetime, Citizen Kane, which many film critics and scholars hailed as the greatest motion picture in history. Her also scored critical success with The Magnificent Amersons (1942) and Touch of Evil (1958).

In his later life, Welles suffered from obesity and other health problems, although he continued to work in front of and behind the camera up down to the day he suffered a fatal heart attack in 1985. Welles left behind a number of unfinished projects, including The Other Side of the Wind.

Filming took place from 1970-1976, which was unusually long already, and backed by the brother-in-law of the Shah of Iran. The filming was already completed when financial constraints and legal issues forced the project to be scrapped during the post-production editing process. Clips have been released through the years. In 1995, a segment of the movie was included in the documentary Orson Welles: The One Man Band.

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