The Making of Quixote

[Donald McKinney]

I want to see him revisit The Defective Detective. That's been around as long as Quixote, he wrote a script with The Fisher King's Richard LaGravenese, it was storyboarded and producer Scott Rudin got Paramount Pictures to greenlight it... Then nothing. Terry tried reviving it after Twelve Monkeys, and he nearly had it ready to go with Nicolas Cage starring, but the opportunity to make Fear and Loathing came up. He mentions it every now and again, but the rights are still with Paramount, a dozen regime changes later, would they still want to do it? But, I feel it's been around too long for it NOT to be made, Quixote is conquered, this should be his next goal. Oh, and he was attached to do adaptations of Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, Larry McMurtry's Anything for Billy and Paul Auster's Mr. Vertigo. Geek Love hasn't been brought up again since 2005, ditto with Anything for Billy, while Mr. Vertigo nearly happened in 2012, but The Zero Theorem was rushed into production. So, he has a few to choose from. I wonder if the Amazon deal is still on, even though they bailed out on Quixote