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IMDb: 7.0 / 10.

Release year: 1999.

Story: Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane (1941), despite the opposition of the films de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.

Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his radio hoax War of the Worlds, is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle, during which he has a verbal altercation with , Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer and the studio, but Welles eventually gets the script and the green light, keeping the subject very hush-hush with the press. The movie is about an aging newspaper publisher who controlled his enemies as ruthlessly as he controlled his friends; and whose mistress was destined for fame. When a rough cut is screened, Hearst gets wind of the movies theme and begins a campaign to see that it is not only never publicly screened, but destroyed.

When moved to Hollywood, the 24 year old was hailed as the boy genius and everyone eagerly anticipated his first film for RKO Studios. Welles had made a name for himself on the New York stage and in radio dramatizations, particularly his adaptation of War of the Worlds. He was given carte blanche by RKO studio head but he took his time and after a year, still had not come up with an idea. After having dinner at San Simeon, s castle-like mansion, he comes up with the idea of a film on the life of a larger-than-life American whose style and foibles defined much of American entrepreneurship. Working with his good friend they develop a script for what would become . However, when Hearst becomes aware of the film, he instructs his newspapers Hollywood gossip columnist to go to any lengths to stop it from being released.

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Cast:

Liev Schreiber
Orson Welles

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