The fact that the most famous actors play a bizarre final role in their CV is presented somewhere between conventional wisdom and bizarre anecdotes. It seems unlikely that such a thing is true in several cases, and yet we are here with examples like Orson Welles expressing Unicron in “Transformers: The Movie”, Don Knotts representing Sniffer in “Air Buddies” and Marlon Brando lending her tones from Dulcet to Mme in the animated comedy “Big Bug Man.” This last example becomes even stranger given the way in which the film was produced in 2004 and has never been published in any form. It is one thing to have a clumsy final role on your IMDB page, but it is another thing to have that linked to a mysterious film that few people have seen.
This doubtful club has now grown up by a member, on the adoption of actor Robert Redford on September 16, 2025. The actor was prolific in several areas and for many reasons, so he certainly does not leave a tachged or complicated heritage. In fact, he appeared in two films towards the end of his career which acted as very appropriate farewells: “The Old Man & The Gun” in 2018, which gave his Rapscallion “archetype of the 70s an affectionate farewell, and” Avengars “of 2019, which saw the icon of the screen bless the cinematographic universe Marvel with its presence at a moment. The real, final and honest appearance of Redford on the screen is graceful of a cameo (alongside George RR Martin) during the first of season three of “Dark Winds”, the television series on which Redford was co -producer.
Redford appeared in another film after “Endgame”, and even if it is a only vocal role, it is remarkable for two reasons. On the one hand, the film is a bizarre anthology film entitled “Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia”. On the other hand, the part of Redford is of Lokia the Dolphin Monster, an Eldritch being who appears towards the end of the film to give the protagonist Ersatz a kind of absolution of Deus ex Machina. If it was not strange enough, there is the question of the projection “Omniboat” at the Film Film of Sundance 2020 … and nowhere else since, having never obtained out in the past five years. It is a missing piece to the inheritance of Redford, which can always remain a mystery for the most part.
“ Omniboat ” is a wild film and has many talented people
It would be one thing if “omniboat” was a parody, something that would be better invisible by Redford Competists. However, it is so ruthless that it cannot be easily rejected or refused, not to mention the fact that Redford is far from the only notable name involved. Redford’s son Dylan Redford was a film producer, made one of the segments and also appears (hence the reason why the elder Redford was probably convinced to play Lokia). The film also presents Adam Devine, Jon Glaser, Adam Pally, Amy Seimetz, Sophia Takal, Casey Wilson and Finn Wolfhard. Then there is the long list of directors of the other segments, which includes Phil Lord (of Lord and Miller’s renown) as well as the Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), who made their segment after “the Swiss army man” and pre- “all everywhere”.
While the film is an anthology and is therefore composed of a variety of characters and short scenarios, the global “conspiracy” of “Omniboat” concerns the real estate magnate Jim Cummings (Mel Rodriguez), a native of Miami who is looking for an object that best represents the spirit of the city. He landed, of course, an outboard named “Lay’n pipe”, and it is this vehicle that presents itself in each of the different segments of the film. You may have already resumed the atmosphere of the film thanks to the involvement of Lord and Daniels, but the net effect that it amounts to watching a few hours of adult swimming late on the night back to the peak of this programming block. It is surreal, hilarious, bizarre, uneven and generally everywhere. In other words, it is enough for an equal minor offer to the Sundance Film Festival in Redford, where a handful of moviegoers and adventurous criticisms, including me, revised it in 2020. That the film is “good” is something that I cannot really answer, but it always dwells in my mind to date.
“Omniboat” will he never be released?
Although it is not unusual for an independent film which will be presented in a film festival to wait a while before obtaining an release of a kind, the virtual disappearance of “Omniboat” is particularly strange. After all, it is not as if the film was devoid of talent of name, nor a dull and forgettable film. So what happened to him and will he ever be released? Even the people who played there do not know it with certainty. One of the other people to have seen “Omniboat” is / Cinema editor Ben Pearson, who made sure to ask Finn Wolfhard the status of the film during the interview about his beginnings as director, “Hell of a Summer” earlier this year. Wolfhard is just as in the dark as we are talking about the film, as he explained when Pearson asked if he had heard of it:
“No. literally, no. I don’t know what happened with this film. It will be good lost media. I think I saw the short film in which I was, but I don’t think I have ever seen the whole film. I heard that it was a crazy film and that all these different filmmakers, I’m obviously sure.
As Wolfhard alludes to this answer, “Omniboat” now exists in a kind of liminal space, it is something that seems to see the light of day at an indefinite moment in the future, and yet it also looks like “Good Lost Media”, the type of film or emission which becomes almost urban longer, the more inevitable it is. With the recent death of Redford, as well as the following heritage of the film, it becomes all the more possible since we can see “Omniboat” mounting the waves a little soon. However, perhaps, like “Big Bug Man”, the film could be better served as a cinematographic cryptide, something that will become a legend. Anyway, the final role of Robert Redford’s film deserves a kind of legendary status.
