"Life With Orson Welles"

[Wellesnet]

Life with Orson Welles: The Man Behind the Legend is in the works from his youngest daughter, Beatrice Welles, and director Dax Phelan (Jasmine).

The series is being styled as a collection of casual, but revealing dinner conversations, during which Phelan, Beatrice Welles, and a revolving door of special guests discuss the late director, his work and the private life few got to see.

"Over the last couple of years, I've been having regular dinners with Beatrice on Friday evenings and they're absolutely epic," Phelan told Wellesnet. "It isn't uncommon for me to arrive early around 4 p.m. and leave well after midnight. As a filmmaker, I'm always interested in the personal lives of filmmakers I admire - i.e., how they balance the personal and professional lives, how they react to bad reviews, what they enjoy doing during their downtime between projects, etc. I'm also just as interested in how their wives and children's lives are affected by the path they've chosen. And, the stories that I'd hear during these epic dinners were just extraordinary. They're stories no one will ever hear anywhere else or from anyone else."

He added, "One night, I was driving home from one of these dinners and I wished I'd recorded our conversation that night for posterity because I really felt the public would be interested. A week later, I was at a screening and mentioned my Friday nights with Beatrice to a TV executive and he said, 'I'd do anything to be a fly on the wall during one of these dinners. Who do I have to kill to get invited?' An idea was born."

http://www.wellesnet.com/life-with-orson-welles-documentary/

[Le Chiffre]

Wow, a six-part series, which I'm assuming means six hours. That would provide an enormous amount of leeway for all kinds of surprises and revelations. Best of luck to them getting it off the ground as soon as possible!