Gilliam Resurrects 'Man Who Killed Don Quixote'

The Thanksgiving weekend was mostly a dead zone, but we reported on some public comments Terry Gilliam made that week about returning to his doomed Don Quixote project, which was the subject of the documentary Lost in La Mancha. At the time, Gilliam said of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, "I was in some way relieved that it did fall apart, 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." There were other problems besides the budget, including injured actors, a disastrous flood, and more. Empire reports that Gilliam is now hard at work revising the script for his unfinished film, collaborating with his Fear and Loathing writing partner, Tony Grisoni. "I re-read the greatest script ever written and realise we gotta get rewriting! I really wanna knock that one out in the next month or so." Because the film was never finished before, the original script was held up for years before the rights reverted back to Gilliam, who now says he has some "very different ideas" for the movie. The director would like to begin filmint this year, according to Empire, but it's all contingent on Johnny Depp's schedule.

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[Lengthy Johnson]

Interesting.

At the time Terry Gilliam said that he was devastated as he had the whole film worked out in his head and knew exactly how it would look.

Now he says that he was relieved that it went down and that he'll do it differently next time around.

I am sure that the investors and the insurance company that bailed him out are "delighted" to hear this.

What if Rochefort's hernia was in fact used as a cover to close a derailed project? Surely, they could have recast the lead if they really wanted to continue?

[MICK]

Terry Gilliam's film also features the Spanish actress (perhaps Italian) Eva Basteiro-Bertoli, the role of Dorothea the Princess Micomicona, a character based on the novel.