The late Orson Welles will be returning the big screen for Drac Studios’ “Christmas Tails”, with a long-lost recording of Welles reading the children’s Christmas story being used in a live/action-CGI film version.

Drac, who are best known as the SFX shop behind “The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button”, is in development on “Christmas Tails,” directed by Todd Tucker and narrated by the legendary Welles, who died in 1985.

Drac president Harvey Lowry describes the project as “It’s a movie about how Santa’s dog saves Christmas, but on one level, this a story about the discovery of Orson’s lost tapes, […] This is a substantial find. It’s something that a filmmaker dreams of.”

Robert X. Leed self-published a book titled “Christmas Tails” 25 years ago and in 1985 got his friend Welles to narrate it on tape. The recording has languished in Leed’s private collection since then until December 2008, when rumors of the tapes’ existence reached various sources who began the process of confirming the rumors and starting pre-production on the project.

Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more on “Christmas Tails”.

By Costa Koutsoutis (Source; The Hollywood Reporter)