In March 2012, Matthew Duda, the Showtime executive who had championed funding for "The Other Side of the Wind" since 1998, retired, and this spelled the end of Showtime's involvement in the project. After his retirement, Duda contended that the greatest obstacle to the film's completion had been Oja Kodar. "Her price kept changing," Duda said. "She kept getting higher and higher, and then she said we'd sabotaged her offer for more money." Josh Karp, in his history of the film, concurred: