It's Actually Happening! The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Behind the Scenes Images

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Everybody! Keep every extremity crossed! Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has gone into pre-production.  

Serving as a warning to every filmmaker, the Quixotic quest to bring his vision to the screen has, so far, been hit by insane on-set disasters, financial ruin, and finally, an injury to the actor charged with bringing Quixote to life – needless to say, it’s been eventful. In fact, so eventful that the whole process was capt ured for the watch-though-your-fingers 2002 documentary, Lost in La Mancha. 

So after twenty years of false starts, things are moving ahead: there’s a cast, locations have or are currently being scouted, a crew has been assembled and, barring a disaster, the film should go before cameras  in October.  

Offering us a cruel glimpse of hope before a war or a great pestilence wipes the whole thing out again, Gilliam has shared a few behind the scenes images. 

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These are just a few of the images, if you want to see the whole location recce, Indiewire have over 30 encouraging signs that this thing is actually happening. 

The plot sounds very similar to the movie that was promised 18 years ago. The story follows a modern-day advertising executive who travels through time and stumbles upon Don Quixote, the old man who loses his mind, decides to be a knight, and embarks on a series of ill-advised adventures.The knight mistakes the time traveller for Sancho Panza, his literary squire, and an alternate riff on one of the most famous novels in all of civilization transpires. 

After several decades’ worth of actors (including Johnny Depp, Ewan McGregor, Jean Rochefort, and Robert Duvall) shuffling through the two leads, Adam Driver and longtime Gilliam cohort Michael Palin will headline the film, with Olga Kurylenko, Stellan Skarsgård and Joana Ribeiro filling out the supporting cast.

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
The film tells the story of a deluded old man who is convinced he is Don Quixote (Jonathan Pryce), and who mistakes T...
Release Dates
19 Apr 2019-VOD
4 Jun 2019-DVD
4 Jun 2019-Blu-ray
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