New Trailer For Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

The wrangling around Terry Gilliam's legendarily troubled passion project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has not let up, even with the film finally finished and headed to Cannes. As a producer who claims he's owed money and credit slings legal arrows at the movie, the latest trailer has dropped.

This version – the one that is actually headed for screens – 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...

Aside from the legal issues, the real pressure for this one will be labouring under the weight of expectation; can anything truly live up to years of pent-up desire to see it?

The Cannes Festival has thrown its support behind the film, and we'll see the reaction the movie gets there. We also don't yet know when it might hit screens outside of festival runs, though with Amazon Studios distributing in several countries, we should at least get to see it finally.