“Gloriously unruly...an incisive look at an artist who never recovered from the success of his youth.” —
Publishers Weekly
From graphic novelist Youssef Daoudi comes a radically new look at the director of
Citizen Kane
and
Touch of Evil:
legendary filmmaker Orson Welles.
Long after his death in 1985, the shadow of Orson Welles still looms over Hollywood. By twenty-three, Welles had revolutionized theatre and radio with
The War of the Worlds
; by twenty-five, he had secured his place in history with his debut film,
. Yet four films and less than a decade later, his career suffered a spectacular collapse, and Welles, once the most promising director in America, was written off as a “would-be genius”—a bad bet in an increasingly money-conscious industry.
In
The Giant,
Youssef Daoudi weaves together reality and mythology to create a radical new look at one of Hollywood’s most legendary figures and poses a question as timeless as Orson Welles himself: What happens when a true artist comes up against the rest of the world?