It's been nearly five years since the death of Dennis Hopper - but there's a strand of hope for what would have been his final film.
NewsIt's been nearly five years since the death of Dennis Hopper, at the age of 74. At the time he died, he was working on what would have been his final movie, The Last Film Festival. The film was a few scenes short of completion, and starred Hopper as a Hollywood producer, whose recent movie flop gets accepted in just one film festival. And not a good one.
Called the O'Hi Film Festival, Hopper's producer and his crew then descend on the small time of O'Hi, and chaos ensues. Well, it would have done, had the film been finished. But now a new campaign has been launched to try and get The Last Film Festival finally over the line.
Writer/director Linda Yellen (she co-wrote the script with Michael Leeds) penned the film just for Hopper, and she's looking to raise $90,000. The money will pay for the rights to use footage from other films, to edit the movie, and to complete the narrative, without the need for more actors.
Said Yellens, "we are reaching out to film fans over Kickstarter as other investment offers have come with a number of unwelcome demands, including cutting certain scenes, altering the film’s score, and even changing Dennis Hopper’s voice! Dennis saw a rough cut of the movie before he died and loved it. We want everyone to see the same film that Dennis and I envisioned".
The film co-starts Jacqueline Bisset, Joseph Cross, JoBeth Williams and Katrina Bowden, and the Kickstarter appeal can be found here.
