“Terry Gilliam on the drömfilmen that took almost 30 years to do”
“It took the former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam, 78, almost 30 years to make their drömfilm.”
“Now, ”The man who killed Don Quixote” just had Sweden-the premiere.”
“– Many, many people have said to me to give up. It has only made me more determined to finish the project. In the meantime, I have made seven other films, ” he says, laughing.”
“We seen at last year’s Cannes film festival, on the last day. During the interview, call Terry Gilliams mobile phone. He looks who it is and turns off the phone.”
“– My lawyer. Then it can only be bad news…”
“Just a few days before, Gilliam won the litigation in which the film’s producer, had sued him and tried to stop the film from being shown.”
“Stellan Skarsgård has been in a leading role”
“Few movies have such a long history. Terry Gilliam began the project in 1989. And the dream to make the moving images of the classic 1600-talshistorien has since become one of the all-time most unfortunate. “
“the Actors have come, gone, and dead, recordings have been done by both the economic reasons that naturkatastofer that destroyed the wings.”
“During the involuntary breaks, Gilliam, among other things, made ”Fisher king”, ”The 12 monkey army”, ”the Brothers Grimm” and ”The imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”. But now it is finally a movie, with Jonathan Pryce, Adam Driver, Olga Kurylenko and Stellan Skarsgård in the leading roles.”
“– this is probably a world record in the long film project. Hard to beat (laughs), ” says Terry.nif tackles a lot of black humor. The week before the film festival, he suffered a stroke.”
“– A stroke is no longer what it was in the past. Now I feel just fine, now it will be the fan opening.nHan is just as intense and enthusiastic as usual. Tribute to Stellan Skarsgård as both man and actor and saw Donald Trump, as both man and president.n– I said a long time ago that the world would have a demagogue as ruler. But he would do it on the basis of twitter, you could not anticipate…”
“the Closest to the musical ”Spamalot!” (after a Monty Python movie) be a lavish blockbuster, and ”Time bandits”, his own movie from 1981, becoming a tv series.”
“– I driver not projects. But I get the percent. Great when you’re a old retiree, ” he says.”
“Don Quijote-the movie years”
“in 1989. Terry Gilliam begins to think about filming Miguel Cervantes (1547-1616) more than 300 year old history of the knight Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza.”
“1998. Only then, he has received together a budget of about 250 million. Jean Rochefort (1930-2017) and Johnny Depp to do the lead roles. Vanessa Paradis also has a great role. Fixed until two years later start the recordings in Navarre in northern Spain. Floods destroy the wings that have been built up. Rochefort, becomes ill. The insurance company does not want to pay out money. The film is laid down.”
“in 2002. Keith Fultons and Louis Pepe’s ”Lost in La Mancha” has premiered. It would have been a behind-the-scenes film, has instead become an intrusive documentary about a failed film project.”
“2003-2016. Terry Gilliam is struggling to get together the money. Robert Duvall, Michael Palin, Gérard Depardieu and John Hurt (1940-2017) and Depp, again, Ewan McGregor and Jack O’connell is from, and related to the project. Depp get tired of all the hassles. Hurt get cancer.”
“in 2017. It gets to the last recording march-June in Spain. Jonathan Pryce , Adam Driver (who helps with the funding), Olga Kurylenko and Stellan Skarsgård makes the lead roles. The budget is approximately sek 160 million. After the last day of filming, jokes Gilliam on Facebook that he inadvertently erased all the material.”
“in 2018. World premiere at Cannes-the festival’s last day. But first, after a legal dispute which is decided in the days before. Producer Paul Branco claimed that he owns the film, and Gilliam never will get to show it.”
“2019u002F2020. The filmmakers behind ”Lost in La Mancha” cut right now, the documentary ”He dreams of giants”, depicting how the Gilliam finally got to make his film finished.”
