It Looks Like Terry Gilliam's Next Film Project Will Be MR. VERTIGO with Ralph Fiennes

While Terry Gilliam is still struggling with what will happen with The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, he's lining up his next film project. According to The Playlist, he will be dusting off the script of another old project that he's been looking to make over the past decade. It's called Mr. Vertigo and it will star Ralph Fiennes.

Gilliam must be one hell of a patient and persistent man to push forward these old projects that he's been trying to direct for years. While speaking at the Brussels International Film Festival, he dropped the news himself about wanting Mr. Vertigo to be his next film.

Mr. Vertigo is based on the novel by author Paul Auster, the story of which follows a young orphan that is taught how to levitate and tours the country during the 1920s as part of a sideshow carnival. I don't know about you, but I think that sounds like a perfect Terry Gilliam film!

Here’s the full synopsis from the novel:

Paul Auster, the New York Times-bestselling author of The New York Trilogy, presents a dazzling, picaresque novel set in the late 1920s – the era of Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh, and Al Capone. Walter Claireborne Rawley, renowned nationwide as “Walt the Wonder Boy,” is a Saint Louis orphan rescued from the streets by a mysterious Hungarian Jew, Master Yehudi, who teaches Walt to walk on air. Master Yehudi brings Walt into a Kansas circus troupe consisting of Mother Sioux and Aesop, a young black genius. The vaudeville act takes them across a vast and vibrant country, through mythic Americana where they meet and fall prey to sinners, thieves, and villains, from the Kansas Ku Klux Klan to the Chicago mob. Walt’s rise to fame and fortune mirrors America’s own coming of age, and his resilience, like that of the nation, is challenged over and over and over again.

I hope that Gilliam actually gets around to making this movie because it sounds like something I know I'd enjoy. What do you think about Mr. Vertigo possibly being Gilliam's next film?