Sacre bleu! Todd is over in Cannes and he keeps emailing us the damnedest bits of news.
Try this one for size: Terry Gilliam has teamed up with producer Jeremy Thomas to start filming on... "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote"!
Well... they're giving it a decent try anyway. Fingers crossed for these guys.
As anyone who has seen the documentary "Lost in La Mancha" knows, Gilliam tried to make this film before with Johnny Depp as the star. But everything that could go wrong, went wrong. Sure, some of the mishaps could have been avoided (although that is always easy to say with hindsight) but others seemed like straight acts of God himself, damning Gilliam, his film and anyone working on it. In the end it became hopeless to try and keep investors willing to spend more on it, and the project died.
We already knew Terry Gilliam is both stubborn and brave. I just pray that this once, he'll be lucky too...
I for one am glad to hear there's new found hope that this "windmill" film project will once again see the light of day for fans of Terry Gilliam. I'll be curious to see what type of casting occurs as this project evolves.
Man, first Red Circle is still a go and then this. Awesome!!! :)