LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Twenty-five years after his death, Orson Welles is back in the movie business.
A rare recording, recently discovered, of the filmmaker narrating a children's Christmas novel is being used as the basis for a film.
It's being produced by Drac Studios, best known as a special effects and makeup shop for movies like "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" but now moving into full-fledged production.
Drac is in development on "Christmas Tails," a 3D live-action/CG hybrid movie to be directed by Todd Tucker and narrated by the legendary filmmaker, who died in 1985.
"It's a movie about how Santa's dog saves Christmas, but on one level, this a story about the discovery of Orson's lost tapes," Drac president Harvey Lowry said. "This is a substantial find. It's something that a filmmaker dreams of."
Welles' voice will be interspersed throughout the movie, much in the way Boris Karloff's voice was used in the 1966 animated version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
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