Warner Bros to Kill the Man Who Killed Don Quixote?

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This makes me angry, and I’m usually so easy going. Pajiba cooly announced to the world that Warner Bros and ‘Mr. Producer’ Joel Silver are developing a big screen version of Miguel Cervantes literary quagmire of a novel, Don Quixote, and they are doing so with words such as ‘swashbuckling’, ‘tentpole’ and ‘blockbuster’ firmly in [...]

Ewan McGregor Joins Robert Duvall in Gilliam’s Don Quixote

Following the collapse of Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote film in 2000 (documented in Lost in La Mancha) he has been working hard to get the project started again and things appear to be moving along. Johnny Depp was originally on board for the 2000 version of The Man Who Killed Don [...]

The Persistent Misfortune of Mister Gilliam

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This week, finally, sees the release of Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. The titular Parnassus sold his daughter’s soul to the devil, and now she is reaching 16, the devil is due to collect. Parnassus hopes a stranger, Tony, holds the key to saving her. Gilliam’s productions have a tendency towards misfortune, and [...]