Terry Gilliam's Quixote Faces Financing Hurdle

It's become something of an industry chestnut that if Terry Gilliam's involved in a project it will almost certainly stumble and falter and sure enough his latest project, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is facing a financing crisis that, according to Variety, is more serious than the 'hiccup' reported last month.

We really don't want to dwell on his bad luck - which culminated on his last feature when his star (who it was undoubtedly even worse luck for)Heath Ledger died of a fatal presecription drug overdose midway through the shoot - but the more cinematically engaged amongst our readers will remember that Don Quixote is the self-same film Gilliam was trying to make ten years ago before his lead actor got himself a herniated disk and NATO aircraft ruined every other take resulting in a $15m insurance claim and halted production and a highly entertaining though slightly tragic documentary about the nightmare, Lost in La Mancha.

Gilliam was at the Deauville American Film Festival in northern France when he made the announcement that his lead actors (Robert Duvall and Ewan McGregor) are still on board and that additional financing is being sought, though admitted that he would rather be in Spain shooting the film.

All fans of Gilliam's work should keep their fingers crossed that the good ship Quixote breaks its way off the wrecking rocks that Gilliam, by now, should know so well.

Source: Screenrsuh