The Defective Detective screenplay

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Gilliam is saying in a new interview that Defective Detective is still the project he really wants to direct :
https://www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/terry-...ing-career

There’s another film Richard LaGravenese and I wrote after Fisher King, The Defective Detective. It’s been lost those many years in the bowels of one particular studio, very hard to get out. But there’s a change in that studio. We’ll see. Where the studios have something they don’t really want to make, they want to make sure nobody else makes it. There’s so many scripts sitting there.
It’s the film I really want to get done before I kick the bucket, about a middle-aged New York cop who was the golden boy when he was younger. He’s become, not a thug, but cynical, and he’s transported into a child’s world. The rules of the mean streets of New York don’t work in the children’s world. If you grab somebody, they melt in your hands. When he pulls his gun and shoots the approaching one-headed dragon, now there’s two heads. He’s living in a world where the rules are children’s rules.