Beautiful Photos From Terry Gilliam’s THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE Location Shoot
It looks like director Terry Gilliam is actually finally going to attempt to make his passion project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. He’s spent the last 18 years trying to bring this story to life on the big screen and he has already done his location scouting. Thanks to Indiewire, we have a collection of beautiful photos showing off the locations where Gilliam plans on shooting the film. Those locations include Spain, Portugal, and the Canary Islands.
The film stars Adam Driver, Michael Palin, Olga Kurylenko, Stellan Skarsgård, and Joana Ribeiro and the director is scheduled to start production on October 4th. It’s so great that Gilliam never gave up on this project and that he kept pushing forward through hell to get to this point. Hopefully, it’s worth the wait and he delivers something incredible.
It would be such a shame if after going through everything that he went through that it ended up being a disappointment. I’ve enjoyed all of Gilliam's films, though. The guy is one of the most unique and insane filmmakers out there and I’m sure he’ll give us something that we’ve never seen before. I included a story description for the film below the photos:
There was a time when Toby was a young film student full of ideals. So he decided to shoot a film adapted from the story of Don Quixote in a pretty Spanish village.
But those days are gone and now Toby is an arrogant publicist, libidinous and jaded. Money and glitter have corrupted him, and while he is in Spain where he finishes filming an ad, he has to juggle with his boss’s wife – Jacqui – a calamitous weather, and his own ego. This is when a mysterious gypsy comes to find him with an old copy of his student film: Toby is upset and decides to go in search of a little village where he had made his first work a long time ago. He discovers with horror that his little film has had terrible effects on this quiet place. Angelica, the girl full of innocence, became a high-class call girl; and the old man who played Don Quixote lost his mind, convinced in his delusion of being the real “Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance.”
A series of incidents lead to a fire that threatens to destroy the village. Wanted by the police, Toby is “saved” by the old fool who takes him for his faithful squire Sancho, and drives on the roads in search of his perfect wife, Dulcinea.
During this journey, Toby will face demons, real and imaginary, modern and medieval. Damsels will be saved, jousts will be completed, and giants will be killed!
Reality and fantasy merge in this strange journey, until a spooky ending.
Via: IndieWire