Tempests: Perhaps the best and most cinemeatic story in Dinesen's later collection

Orson Welles died w/out completing his long-awaited adaptation of Isak Dinesen's The Immortal Story, which does not seem to me like great material for a movie. I wonder why he was drawn to that weird material rather than to another work in Isak Dinsen's late (last?) story collection (Anecdotes of Destiny, 1955): Tempests. Tempests may not be a great story, but in my view it's the best in this five-piece collection and the most cinematic, even operatic - perhaps too much so (compared w/ the successfully adapted story in this group, Babette's Feast). Tempests is another 19th-century, fable-like story, in this instance about a young woman (Malli) whose from a remote coastal village in Norway whose father came over as a sea captain from Scotland, fell in love and married, set off on voyage and never returned (presumed dead; as this story is a like a fable of people lost and found, w/ man allusions to The Tempest, we continue to suspect that the sea captain will return from the deep; spoiler: He doesn't). The young woman becomes fascinated w/ theater and in particular w/ Shakespeare and signs on to traveling theater troupe, whose director makes her his persona protege (no me-too moments, however) and casts her as Ariel (w/ himself as Prospero). While en route to Christiansand (today's Oslo) for the beginning of the theater run the ship carrying the troupe is nearly destroyed in a coastal storm, but Malli - summoning her father's intrepid nautical character - saves the ship and all aboard. She's welcomed in town as a hero - and falls in love with the son of the ship owner. But when, a week or so after the near-shipwreck, one of the sailors does unexpectedly she decides that she is not meant to marry the son of the shipowner, writes him a farewell letter, and takes her leave. So the drama - the young woman's life story, the storm at sea, the nascent performances of The Tempest, the sorrow of her abandoned romance - could make for great cinema hat I would think would have appealed to Welles (and they do make for a ood if extremely puzzling story) - perhaps the story is just too weird and suffers from being yet another Dinesen story of thwarted love, unhappiness, and misanthropy. It also becomes apparent, as one reads through Dinesen stories, how important to her was the theme of a young (often Scandinavian) woman whose artistic talents go unrecognized, whose marriage has failed, and who suffers in loneliness (Malli and Babette are 2 examples, but see also The Ring and even the "heroine" of Immortal Story).