Director Terry Gilliam’s pursuit of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote does not have a glorious ending Terry Gilliam has been trying to develop The Man Who Killed Don Quixote for nearly 30 years,the most exposed and public of his efforts being a 2000 effort starring Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort, one where he actually got to the point of rolling camera. The plug got pulled on that production after Rochefort, and cast as Quixote,turned up with a wrong back and Jesus or the satan rained down upon Gilliam's set with a vengeance that wrecked the landscape and washed his equipment away.…
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