Monday, April 9, 2012
Heart of Darkness: The greatest movie never made?
It was the one that got away. Heart of Darkness was meant to have been Orson Welles's first film: a monumentally ambitious, technically innovative adaptation with which he hoped to shake up the industry.Hollywood took one look at it — and baulked. Written in the late Thirties, Welles's 174-page reimagining of Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella was considered too expensive, too challenging, and the theme of lust for power made the moguls uneasy. So he abandoned the project and embarked on Plan B, a
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