fresh IRS audit. Welles turns to raise money by working on other projects, including F for Fake , which is made for Iranian-French production house "Les Films de l'Astrophore", with Iranian money provided by Mehdi Bouscheri and the participation of French producer Dominique Antoine . For the completion of The Other Side of the Wind , Welles secures funding through a three-way deal, with a third of funds raised by himself, a third from Bouscheri through "Les Films de l'Astrophore", and a third from Spanish producer Andrés Vicente Gómez . Early 1973: Welles and Kodar are stranded by flooding in Madrid for three months, while negotiating with Gómez for TOSOTW funding. They eventually relocate to Paris. January–April 1974: John Huston is cast in the leading role, which has been vacant up until now. Filming in Carefree, Arizona. (Party scenes.) Sometime in 1974, circa March: Producer Andrés Vicente Gómez leaves the project after allegedly embezzling $250,000 of its budget, and having failed to contribute his promised third of the budget. Eventually, most of the outstanding budget is put forward by Mehdi Bouscheri through Les Films de l'Astrophore, leading to legal disputes over whether they owned 33%, 50%, 67% or 80% of the final film. Welles also pours more of his own money into the film, including money borrowed from friends; Peter Bogdanovich puts $500,000 in the film. By 1979, forty minutes of the film had been edited by Welles. But in that year, the film experienced serious legal and financial complications.