Oscar Winner Michel Legrand Scores Orson Welles’ Final Film (Exclusive)

French composer and multiple Oscar- and Grammy-winner Michel Legrand is scoring Orson Welles’ final film, “The Other Side of the Wind,” Variety has learned.This will mark Legrand’s second Welles project.

The veteran composer, whose work includes “Yentl,” “Summer of ’42,” “The Thomas Crown Affair” and “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,” scored Welles’ last completed film, “F for Fake,” in 1974.

Welles died in 1985.Legrand, 86, has been secretly working on the film since December.

Orchestral recording began on Monday in Belgium and will continue with a jazz ensemble later this week in Paris.The composer calls it “one of the most exciting and delicate scores” he has written in his 60 years of working in movies.

“I asked myself constantly, ‘How would Orson have reacted?’ The very subject of the film touched me: the idea of the passage of time, the renewal of inspiration.

I am proud to be the link between these two Welles films.

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