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14May2009

Gilliam Revives 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote'

DateThursday, May 14, 2009 at 6:03PM
Terry Gilliam will finally reveal his Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus at Cannes, a film most notable at this point as being the final screen performance of Heath Ledger. But even though we're still several months away from Parnassus being released in the U.S. and foreign territories, Gilliam is already talking about his new project. Which is an old project.

The Brazil and Twelve Monkeys filmmaker is headed back to La Mancha, resurrecting his troubled production, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. "I'm not so much a filmmaker as someone who gets possessed by an idea and it doesn't leave me until I make the film," Gilliam told Variety. "I commit myself to it so fully."

He tried making a Quixote movie about ten years ago, and his failures became the documentary Lost in La Mancha, which chronicled how the film was beset with tons of problems that effectively backrupted the production before it could be completed. Don Quixote also cursed Orson Welles, who could count an ambitious re-telling of Cervantes' literary classic among his dozens of unfinished films.

Gilliam wants Johnny Depp to play a modern day advertising executive who travels back in time and whom Don Quixote mistakes for Sancho Panza. Wouldn't it be cool if he had to spend some time with the Dharma Initiative when he goes back in time? OK, maybe not.

Depp's always busy schedule is apparently the roadblock for when the production will get underway. Gilliam has his money now and wants to shoot The Man Who Killed Don Quixote next spring. The title role has yet to be cast, but knowing Gilliam's dedication to the project, I don't expect it to be a lightweight.

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