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Officials at Tri-Star, which was to release “Nostromo,” the $40-million film renowned British director David Lean was preparing before his death last week at 83, say they have no plans to go forward with the film.

Based on the Joseph Conrad novel and starring Dennis Quaid and Isabella Rossellini, “Nostromo” had been scheduled to start filming March 4 in France but was postponed because of the director’s illness.

“Nostromo” producer Serge Silberman, reached at his Paris office last week, said it is too early to discuss the future of the project, which he and Lean worked on for three years.

“You can ask later,” said Silberman. “For the moment I am just crying that he has passed.”

Silberman added, “We have lost not only a great human being, but a giant, a filmmaker the likes of which we’ll never see again.”