If there's ever been a movie that seemed intent on not being made, it's Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.
A longstanding passion project for the director, the movie has been in the works in one form or another since the late nineties, most famously resulting in a failed attempt starring Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort that began shooting in 2000 but only resulted in a documentary, Lost in La Mancha, that chronicled the film's disastrous collapse.
Now, it seems, it will finally be made with the help of Amazon. It was announced earlier this year that Terry Gilliam had signed a deal with Amazon Studios, but the director has only now confirmed in an interview with The Playlist that the deal does indeed include Don Quixote.
Gilliam tells the site the movie will begin shooting early next year, with John Hurt and Jack O'Connell set to star in the roles originally intended for Rochefort and Depp. It will apparently also have a limited theatrcial release before being made available on Amazon's streaming service; perhaps wisely, Gilliam only mentioned the shooting date, not a release date.
What's more, it seems that the deal also includes a revival of another earlier project, an original script called Defective Detective co-written with Richard LaGravenese (of Fisher King fame), which could be expanded into a mini-series. Gilliam was playing a bit more coy with details on it, though.
No word if Amazon will also be producing behind-the-scenes documentaries on the making of the films.
