Friday
28Nov2008
Terry Gilliam Back in the Saddle for 'Don Quixote'
Friday, November 28, 2008 at 3:19PM
I don't know why, exactly, but
Don Quixote
has been vexing filmmakers for generations, not the least of whom is
Terry Gilliam.
But now, Gilliam indicates that he will revive his production of
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote sometime next
year. 
"I was in some way relieved that it did fall apart," Gilliam said at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in London, "because I didn't have the money to finish it. It's a good thing it went down when it did because I would have got the blame for going over budget."
"I think this time we will make a better film," noted the director.
One hurdle the film will need to cross is getting Johnny Depp back on board. Since the project first dissolved, Depp has signed on to make The Lone Ranger and a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, an eventuality that Gilliam will work around.
"When Johnny's ready, we're ready. We're just talking
about dates to film. Basically it all depends on his schedule but otherwise
we're set."
Reader Comments (1)
As much as I respect and admire Terry Gilliam, I expect his version of Don Quixote to be almost unwatchable.
The greatness of Cervantes' work is telling an absurd story about absurd people and absurd events in a perfectly straight narrative.
Gilliam has never done a straight narrative and wouldn't know what it was if he sat on it.