Ladies and gentlemen, stand up and cheer! Terry Gilliam is once again working on The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the unmade film that has become a legend. Never one to let such small matters as Spanish air force manoeuvers, catastrophically bad weather, his leading man's illness, insurance woes, legal woes and other woes stand in his way, Gilliam is once again planning to put the film into production.
As anyone who's seen Lost In La Mancha, the excellent documentary of Gilliam's sadly aborted shoot of his film, knows, everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong - and it was heartbreaking. But Gilliam never gave up, having spent the last several years involved in legal wrangling over the rights in order to get back to making the film.
This time, he and screenwriter Tony Grisoni have updated the screenplay based only loosely on Cervantes' masterpiece, which sees a filmmaker charmed into elderly delusional knight Don Quixote's world, becoming the old man's unwitting Sancho Panza as he attempts to do knightly deeds and win the heart of his lady love, the fair Dulcinea.
Original star Johnny Depp, who recently worked with Gilliam on The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, is in talks to reprise the role he originally took in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote as the filmmaker, but given his schedule he may not be able to participate.
But with Gilliam once again ready to go, producer Jeremy Thomas at his back and Grisoni by his side, we've got to hope that this time he won't just be tilting at windmills.