Terry Gilliam has carried The Man Who Killed Don Quixote through storms, shutdowns, cast illness, legal troubles and years where it looked like the film may never be made. Though it has been finished for about a year, the movie's issues haven't quite gone away, as it lost Amazon as a distributor around the time it was headed to last year's Cannes Film Festival. It'll finally arrive in the States in April, and a new trailer is heralding its long-sought-after release.
This version – the one that is actually headed for cinema – stars Adam Driver as Toby, a once-aspiring filmmaker now settled into the life of a fast-living commercials director juggling affairs and his own ego. He has occasion to visit the small Spanish town where he shot his student opus, a lyrical re-working of Don Quixote. But once he arrives, he discovers that time, and the legacy of his film, have not been kind.
He ends up dragged into an adventure that blends the real and the fantastical, mistaken for loyal squire Sancho Panza by the man (Jonathan Pryce) he once had portray the knight, who has come to believe he's the real thing. Cue a bizarre road trip...
Currently the film, which has so far played festivals in lieu of an actual schedule, is set for a "one night theatrical event" in the US on 10 April. There still appears to be no sign of a full launch in the UK, but we remain hopeful.
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