The first film Orson Welles wanted to make was Heart of Darkness

'Orson Welles settled upon Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness as the raw material for his first film, believing it to be, as he later introduced it on the radio, "a downright incantation, [in which] we are almost persuaded that there is something essential waiting for all of us in the dark areas of the world." Welles envisaged Heart of Darkness as an antifascist allegory, in which the looming threat to world peace from Europe's rightwing dictators was personified in the character of Kurtz.' More. Via Maud Newton.