LOS ANGELES, April 1 — Screenwriter-director Terry Gilliam will begin shooting his upcoming film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote in September, reports Screen Daily.
Filming will take place in Spain and Portugal.
The movie will be produced by Paolo Branco’s Alfama Films with Tornasol Films from Spain and Leopardo Films.
The screenplay, roughly based on Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, was written by Gilliam and Tony Grisoni.
It will be the third attempt of the director to shoot a movie based around the Don Quixote story: Gilliam began shooting a film in 2000 with Jean Rochefort and Johnny Depp but production was cancelled, which was the subject of the 2002 documentary Lost in La Mancha.
Later a project saw Robert Duvall and Ewan McGregor attached as stars but funding fell through.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, John Hurt and Jack O’Connell will star in the new production. — AFP-Relaxnews
