New Don Quixote Documentary Continues Terry Gilliam’s Journey On The Film

Terry Gilliam's decades-long Sisyphean effort to bring The Man Who Killed Don Quixote to screens has already inspired one documentary, the totally entertaining (if sometimes heartbreaking) Lost In Mancha from 2002. Given the sheer struggle of the movie, it's becoming one of those rare productions to now generate another behind-the-scenes peek while it's still en route the screens. Prepare your eyes, then, for He Dreams Of Giants.

Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, who enjoyed such open access to Gilliam last time around, are back, having spent time on set with the director on the current incarnation of the film. "We began to think this is more a film about an internal struggle in an artist’s mind," Fulton says in a statement. "What is it like for an artist to be standing on the brink of actually finishing this project finally?"

Adds Pepe: "Even on the set we would say the conflicts raging around Terry right now of making the movie are not nearly as interesting as what’s going on inside his head."

Don Quixote, a film wracked by weather conditions, casting changes, financial struggles, producer squabbles and disappointments (including US/UK distributor Amazon pulling out), is finally about to face what is probably a welcome challenge: trial by Cannes audiences as it prepares to close to festival. Gilliam was taken ill by the stress recently, but has said he'll attend the gala. Fulton and Pepe, meanwhile, are editing He Dreams Of Giants and are in Cannes talking to sales agents about picking it up. We doubt that will be much of a problem.