A mysterious long-lost film may soon be seeing the light of day. Production company Royal Road Entertainment announced on Tuesday that the late Orson Welles’ famously uncompleted film The Other Side of the Wind will be released on his 100th birthday in May of 2015.

The New York Times announced the news on Wednesday with an in-depth article tracing the movie’s origin and long suppression, which of themselves are cinematic. Welles, who passed away in 1985, spent fifteen years working on the film, which he said was based on the origin of his friendship with Ernest Hemingway. At one point, one of his main financial backers, Iranian Mehdi Bushehri, became angry at his spending and confiscated most of his film reels to a warehouse in Paris. Welles reportedly “smuggled” 45 minutes worth of footage to California.

Royal Road Entertainment admitted it was a Herculean effort to find a compromise between various rights-holders to the film. Welles’ daughter and only heir Beatrice, his companion and co-star of the film Oja Kodar, and the Iranian-French movie production company L’Astrophere, all had to come to an agreement that had seemed impossible for nearly thirty years. Beatrice Welles admitted that, “it took the right people to come along.”

Royal Road Entertainment and several of Welles’ compatriots, including the film’s star Peter Bogdanovich, are now working to try to get the film ready for screen. “All we can do is the best we can, using the script, his notes, and what he has left,” Bogdanovich said.