“As you can tell if you’ve already seen the film, we’ve gotten Cinna the Poet’s hair exactly right! Or, I should say, Leo Bill, the wonderful British actor who plays the part, got it right. Orson kept cutting and reinserting this famous scene where Cinna the Poet is ambushed by an angry mob, but lucky for us (and for the actor playing Cinna) he decided to keep it in…”

“I’m pretty excited to start showing you some of the actual original production photos that we based a lot of the film’s central images on. This one here is a big company shot from the real 1938 Caesar , and Orson is front and center holding court as Brutus. Our incredible costume designer Nic Ede deserves enormous amounts of credit for bringing these characters to life in our film… ”

“Orson was so punk rock. After the original broadcast of ‘War of the Worlds’ in 1938, CBS Radio and the FCC received millions of letters from terrified listeners. The letter pictured here was from the Trenton, NJ city manager – calling for IMMEDIATE investigations to prevent a “recurrence.” See the full letter plus a letter praising the broadcast HERE from the government archives.”

“Orson the radio man was an entirely different animal. He revolutionized the radio broadcast in America, giving it a beauty and a sense of drama that had never been seen before. One of my favorite scenes in the film is when Orson takes Richard to the radio station to record his program and show him around. We get to see this whole other side to his life…”