FINAL WISH: Director Releasing River Phoenix's Last Movie!

The film River Phoenix was shooting at the time of his death will finally be released, likely next year. Dutch director George Sluizer has re-edited the 18-year-old footage and plans to finish Dark Blood by making a few additional adjustments, like adding a voice-over. He intends to ask Phoenix’s brother, Joaquin, for help with that task, he tells the Hollywood Reporter: "The voices of both brothers are very much alike." The 1993 drama features Phoenix as a hermit waiting for the world to end while living on a desert nuclear testing site.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, he ends up in a complicated relationship with the wife of a Hollywood couple, played by Judy Davis and Jonathan Pryce, who seek shelter there. (IMDb's explanation of the plot is a little more sinister sounding.) Sluizer hid the footage to keep it from being destroyed after Phoenix’s death of a suspected drug overdose.