The last film of the late River Phoenix will finally get a U.S. release more than twenty years after the actor’s death, the Los Angeles Times reports. The film entitled Dark Blood and directed by George Sluizer will be released through Lionsgate and available via Video on Demand. Lionsgate purchased the distribution rights from Cinemavault.

Many thought the film would never see its completion but the film was screened in its unfinished version at two festivals in 2011 in Berlin and Miami, and now Lionsgate has picked up the distribution for the Cannes Film Market.

Seventy-three percent of the film had been filmed before Phoenix died of a drug overdoes in 1993. The insurance company took control of everything regarding the film after River’s death, halting the process for more than twenty years. When Sluizer heard that the footage was being held in London he started putting the film back together again.

“I was so sad about River’s death that I nearly wanted to quit my profession. On the other hand, I was also angry that we could not finish the movie,” Sluizer told the LA Times about River’s passing.

River’s co-stars Judy Davis and Jonathan Pryce play a couple on honeymoon in Utah when they meet Phoenix’s widowed character and their plans go awry.

The film’s release date has not been set.