Welles also hinted at filming the movie in Europe with an English cast. While no actors or actresses were brought onto the project, Welles did express interest in names such as Timothy Doltan, Bud Cort, and Jeanne Moreau. Work continued with Welles and Kodar continuing to act all roles. The test footage was meant for potential investors, but after no luck in financial backing, Welles and Kodar rewrote the script in an attempt to change the outcome. Welles had a tendency to self-finance his own films before a major production company would pick up the project. In this test footage filmed in black and white, Welles and Kodar act as two characters from The Dreamers. In 1980, using a 35mm 1:85 widescreen camera, Welles and Kodar shot twenty-five minutes of test footage in Welles' home. Production for The Dreamers began in 1978 when Welles' closest friend, Oja Kodar, began writing the Determined to abandon her life, she decides from then on to lead the lives of many, her merchant friend Marcus Coccoza following alongside in her travels around the world. The final version of the plot revolved around Pellegrina Leoni, an opera singer who loses her voice in a fire. The story for The Dreamers was revised multiple times before Welles' death in 1985.
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