TERRY GILLIAM - GILLIAM HOPES TO REVIVE QUIXOTE FILM

GILLIAM HOPES TO REVIVE QUIXOTE FILM

Eccentric moviemaker TERRY GILLIAM is planning to revive his 'disaster' movie about Spanish literary legend DON QUIXOTE.
The director's attempts to make the oddball epic, starring Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort, were chronicled by filmmakers Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe in 2002 movie Lost in La Mancha.
In the documentary, Gilliam lost his cool on set as he was faced with scheduling and financial issues and weather-damaged sets.
But the experience hasn't put the former Monty Python star off - he's reviving The Man Who Killed Don Quixote with British producer Jeremy Thomas, who has picked up the rights to the movie adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes' classic 17th century romantic novel.
Gilliam and screenwriter Tony Grisoni have rewritten and updated the script, according to Daily Variety.
The director is in talks with Depp to revive his role in the film as a modern-day ad executive, who travels back in time and is mistaken for Quixote's sidekick Sancho Panza by the windmill-fighting knight..
Depp was among the movie stars who stepped in to help Gilliam complete his film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus after his star Heath Ledger's death last year (08).