Don Quixote

Gilliam Not Sure He’ll Direct Again

Terry Gilliam is one of my favorite filmmakers. Mainly because he isn’t afraid to let his imagination run wild and create new scenarios and worlds for his characters to inhabit. If the audience comes along for the ride then so be it, and if they don’t then that’s their problem. Unfortunately that mindset doesn’t sit...
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Gilliam’s ‘Don Quixote’ Stalls Again

Poor Terry Gilliam. He’s one of the best movie writer/directors alive today, with more ideas bubbling away in his brain at any one time than most of us have in a lifetime. And yet he consistently fails to catch a break in terms of luck or financing to get those ideas from his head and...
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Rival ‘Don Quixote’ Movie In The Works

It seems as though Terry Gilliam’s attempt to bring his version of Don Quixote to the big screen really is doomed to failure. After having to give up the first attempt due to a series of bad happenings, he’s now all set to try again. And what happens? A rival movie pops up, with a...
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Gilliam Bags Ewan McGregor For ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’

Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote should have been released a decade ago, but the production was beset by problems. So much so that production was halted and the film never got made. But it’s now being revisited, even though some of the cast have changed. Johnny Depp was originally playing the lead...
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Gilliam: Depp Out Of ‘Don Quixote’

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is a film that Terry Gilliam should already have under his belt. He started shooting the film based on the literary world of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 2000 but production was halted after a series of on-set mishaps forced Gilliam’s hand. Johnny Depp was in the lead role...
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Gilliam Making ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ With Or Without Depp

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote should really have been made in 2000. Work on it was well underway until a spate of accidents and mishaps forced director Terry Gilliam to abandon it. But that wasn’t the end of the project, and Gilliam made known his intention to start work on the film once more...
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Terry Gilliam Starts ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ For Second Time

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote was, at the turn of the millennium, shaping up to be Terry Gilliam’s next masterpiece. Then disaster struck, accidents and mishaps pushed the budget up, and the insurers eventually pulled the plug midway through the project. But Gilliam isn’t a man to give up easily, as evidenced by his...
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Terry Gilliam and Johnny Depp To Resurrect ‘Don Quixote’

During the year 2000, Terry Gilliam started filming The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, starring Johnny Depp. However, a spate of accidents and mishaps forced the movie to be abandoned, and the project has been dead ever since. However, rumours of a revival have surfaced recently, rumours that have now been confirmed by Gilliam himself....
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