Here’s a great article on Terry Gilliam and his continued fight for little film makers. A fight which as his fans we have all joined with him and believe in so strongly.
Source: Suite 101
Into the new Millennium Gilliam continues trying to make films his way in the face studio opposition and other set backs.
The Second Rise of Terry Gilliam
In 2000 Terry Gilliam made what is probably the most famous non-existent film ever. He began production on a long planned project called The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. The film starred Jean Rochefort as Cervantes’ character and Johnny Depp as a time-traveling ad executive Quixote mistakes for his squire, Sancho Panza.
Lost In La Mancha
The film was plagued with disasters. Floods, close proximity to a UN plane-testing site stalled filming. Jean Rochefort developed an intestinal virus that meant he had to return to France for treatment, and the financiers’ insurance company shut down the film indefinitely. The entire episode was chronicled in the film Lost in La Mancha by documentarians Louis Pepe and Keith Fulton. Gilliam always tried to keep the project alive, and has recently started preproduction on a new version that will now star Robert Duvall and Ewan McGregor.
Gilliam Versus Hollywood Round 2
Following the failure of his Quixote film, Gilliam didn’t make another film for five years. Since his last movie came out in 1998, it would be seven years in between completed films. The film that came next was another battle with studio heads for Gilliam, but it wouldn’t result in the same victory as Brazil.
Onwards… Upward… Always… INDEED!!!! : )