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.

He told The Independent:

“As far as we’re concerned, it’s on. 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. It will be next year some time, before next summer anyway.”

Hopefully this time the project won’t be beset by the amount of weird occurrences that blighted it the last time. Military fly pasts drowned out the recording of dialogue, floods washed away sets, and then French actor Jean Rochefort was airlifted to hospital after suffering a hernia. Insurers then decided it may be a good idea to pull the plug.

Gilliam has recently won legal rights to the script, but despite this, he is planning on rewriting the whole thing from scratch.

“We’re going to completely reshoot it. The intervening years have taught me that I can actually write a much better film. I’m so excited it’s going to get done at last.”

Any Gilliam film is guaranteed to be bizarre yet completely brilliant. In the same way as Tim Burton’s work intrigues me, so does Gilliam’s, so this movie could end up as a masterpiece. With Johnny Depp in the driving seat, the acting should also be first class. So I’m ecstatic this project is back on - I just hope they have better luck this time around.