Watch the trailer for Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
It's finally here! Take a first look at The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Terry Gilliam’s long awaited film based on Cervantes' classic novel Don Quixote
Will we ever get to see Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote? The Brazil and Time Bandits director has been trying to make a film inspired by Cervantes’ epic novel since the late 90s, but the initial production was scuppered by a flood and a back injury to leading man Jean Rochefort. Several attempt to relaunch the film with actors Robert Duvall, Michael Palin and John Hurt also failed.
Gilliam finally got production going again last year with his Brazil star Jonathan Pryce in the Don Quixote role. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is now finally in the can and was thought to be a shoo-in for Cannes next month, but just this morning it was reported that there’s no chance of it appearing at the French film festival as expected because of a legal dispute with its former producer Paulo Branco, who’s claiming he owns the rights to the film despite apparently not contributing the financing he promised.
Just when it looks like The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is well and truly cursed, the first trailer has appeared online this afternoon to give the world the first glimpse of the film and Gilliam’s fans a glimmer of hope that it’ll eventually appear in cinemas.
The promo suggests we’re in for a typically oddball adventure from Gilliam. Set in the present day, Jonathan Pryce stars as a man who believes he's the title character of Cervantes’s 15th century novel. Adam Driver, meanwhile, plays commercial director Toby, who’s described as “jaded, arrogant and over-sexed”, and the trailer shows the cynical ad man getting swept up in Pryce’s character's delusions, which includes thinking Toby is his trusty squire Sancho Panza.
Take a look at the trailer below. Fingers crossed we get to see the whole movie sometime soon.
UPDATE: It looks like we might get to see the film sooner than we thought, as Little White Lies among others have reported that Gilliam's long-awaited feature will premiere as the closing film of this year's Cannes Film Festival after all.