Gilliam Back To Work On Don Quixote Exclusive: new script underway
As Empire’s old man used to say, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” Evidently it was the kind of cheesy maxim bandied about in the Gilliam household too, because, fresh from wrapping Doctor Parnassus, Terry Gilliam has started work on a new script for The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a reprise of his ill-fated 2000 production.
Now, as anyone who’s seen Lost In La Mancha will testify, Gilliam’s original attempt to film Cervantes’ novel spiralled into ‘the movie that didn’t want to get made’, with flash floods, injuries to key cast-members and the Spanish Air Force all intervening to end the shoot after just five days.
Much legal wrangling with the insurers ensued, before rights to the script were eventually ceded back to Gilliam and writing partner Tony Grisoni (Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas). “Tony and I have started rewriting Don Quixote just this last week. [We] finally got the script back. 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.”
Gilliam was vaguer on details, saying only that he had “some very different ideas” for the movie, but he has not lost any of his enthusiasm for the lance-wielding Spaniard. “[I’m] starting to think I was lucky, because maybe the film will be better seven years later. It will have matured a bit longer.”
Shooting on The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is likely to begin later this year. Hopefully it won't end shortly afterwards with the on-set appearance of a locust plague and a 100-foot Marshmallow Man.
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Seriously - if anything goes wrong on this set then Terry is offically the unluckiest person ever - I wish him luck but If you see him on the tube - stand well back or you might get hit by a bus, probably the one out of Jumper while you are still underground.... ... Read More
Rewrite the greatest script ever written??? Why the hell would you go and do that??? And what's up with the quotation, who is saying what??? ... Read More
...we'll have great documentary again, like Lost in La Mancha.
I don't God likes Terry. It stopped Quixote from happening first time round, it made Tideland suck, and it killed Heath Ledger during the making of The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnasus first time round. ... Read More
