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RE: Gilliam is working on it (again) - bruttenholm - 05-24-2015
The pre-production is still going on. Filming has (had?) been delayed due to the personal problems of one of the actors, says producer Adrian Guerra.
Quote:EL QUIJOTE, SE COMPLICA. Los preparativos para el rodaje la película maldita de Terry Gilliam, El hombre que mató a don Quijote, siguen adelante, indicó su productor Adrián Guerra. El filme se ha vuelto a retrasar por problemas personales de un actor.
RE: Gilliam is working on it (again) - TlatoSMD - 05-25-2015
Concorde/Telemünchen aka TMG (= TeleMünchenGruppe) seem to be Terry's mainstay producer/distributor recently. They've distributed Parnassus and Zero Theorem over here, and now they're obviously funding Quixotte. It's surprising how Terry's recent films never seem to end up on TMG's own TV channel, Tele5. They're known for weird B-films somewhere between trash and cult.
RE: Gilliam is working on it (again) - bruttenholm - 06-10-2015
Gilliam confirmed to Theplaylist that Amazon Studios will release the film theatrically and on streaming for the US.
Apparently he also has several other projects with Amazon, the most advanced seemingly being the adaptation of The Defective Detective into a mini-series (which he has talked about before).
The only bad news is that the shooting of Quixote appears to be delayed again, now scheduled for early 2016.
RE: Gilliam is working on it (again) - bruttenholm - 06-16-2015
John Hurt has announced he has pancreatic cancer. I wish all will end well for him though it's a terrible disease.
RE: Gilliam is working on it (again) - TlatoSMD - 06-20-2015
This is starting to sound like Terry will live until he's 150 but will never see Quixote made, also due to tragically failing health on the side of his actors.
EDIT: On a sidenote, it's starting to look like you and me are the last two active members on this forum, Bruttenholm. What will now become of the Baron?
RE: Gilliam is working on it (again) - cclark - 06-20-2015
(06-20-2015, 06:29 PM)TlatoSMD Wrote: This is starting to sound like Terry will live until he's 150 but will never see Quixote made, also due to tragically failing health on the side of his actors.
EDIT: On a sidenote, it's starting to look like you and me are the last two active members on this forum, Bruttenholm. What will now become of the Baron?
Some of us are still lurking about.
As for John Hurt, he did say that they caught his cancer early, so hopefully that will help him beat the disease.
RE: Gilliam is working on it (again) - TlatoSMD - 06-20-2015
Yes, here's hoping for John. Just saw him in the original Alien (1979) again last night, realizing how it's still the best entry in the series, although I'm really looking forward to Prometheus 2 (which many people hated because it didn't give them the answers they sought neatly packed as they'd foolishly hoped, when it was announced from the start as the first in a new series, so people called it "jumbled" and lacking in logic simply because the story was stretched out over more films than this one).
But to re-connect this with Terry, Alien Resurrection (1997), while a lot better than most people say it is if you're a fan of Jeunet's 90s work up to that film, was the weirdest (the 1979 original was weird in a dark wonder and abyss way, and definitely not as quirky as Resurrection) by being made by a Terry fan but without using Terry's trademark wide-angle lenses as he'd had in Delicatessen (1991) and The City of Lost Children (1995). Overall, I'm giving Resurrection 7 points out of 10 as for what a Jeunet Alien film coulda been. Which is a 7 that includes one bonus point for a strangely immersive pull it has on re-watching somehow (only wanted to take a look at the underwater scene again that somehow reminds me of Tarkovsky's Stalker where they're also passing a flooded facility, and ended up seeing pretty much the entire film from then on) by being pure Jeunet, that is without Terry's lenses, nor being as nauseatingly saccharine as everything he's done ever since Amelie.
RE: Gilliam is working on it (again) - dktd - 06-23-2015
Don't know if this has been seen by you lot yet, but:
http://electricliterature.com/terry-gilliam-makes-seventh-attempt-at-don-quixote-movie/
Don't think it's saying anything new - just that funding has now been confirmed, and it's "slated to debut in May 2016".
RE: Gilliam is working on it (again) - bruttenholm - 06-23-2015
I wish the article would be sourced so we'd know if the date of May 2016 is pure speculation or not.
RE: Gilliam is working on it (again) - cclark - 06-24-2015
(06-23-2015, 02:32 PM)bruttenholm Wrote: I wish the article would be sourced so we'd know if the date of May 2016 is pure speculation or not.I think that it is. That's a mighty tight timeframe since Gilliam won't even start filming until 2016. I think the film probably won't even be finished until Summer or Fall 2016 (that's with post-production), but with Amazon backing Quixote, we'll probably get to see the finished product much quicker than we did with his last few films (particularly, The Zero Theorem).