John Hurt's Cancer Provides Latest Delay of Terry Gilliam's THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE

I wasn't aware of this before today, but actor John Hurt (Alien, Harry Potter, Hellboy, V For Vendetta) was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this past summer. He's undergoing treatment right now, and a new report in The Times says that his condition is causing yet another delay of director Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. For those who don't know, Quixote is a film Gilliam has been trying to make since 1998, but has fallen victim to practically every conceivable thing that could go wrong in the intervening years. Things were finally looking good earlier this summer, when Amazon backed the film and production was set to get underway for a May 2016 release with Hurt and Jack O'Connell in the lead roles, but it looks like the curse remains on the project...for now. (For more on this, watch the documentary Lost in La Mancha, which chronicles the first failed attempt to get the movie made.)

Obviously we hope Hurt has a speedy recovery simply so he can get healthy again quickly, and the man's health is more important than a movie production. You have to wonder, though...this is just the latest in a long line of setbacks for this film, and I can't imagine what another delay is doing to Gilliam's patience when it comes to this project. I wonder if he'll ever call it quits on this one once and for all and move on to something else, or stick it out and finally make the movie he's been dreaming of for years.

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