VIDEO: Terry Gilliam talks Don Quixote at Cannes
But Gilliam never let the project go. It has almost got off the ground with different producers and stars every few years for the last decade and a half, and it's a spectre which has haunted the latter years of his career.
Now it might finally be going away as the director was at Cannes to talk about getting set up to shoot this all new version in October 2016. And that he might even have a version ready to screen at Cannes in 2017.
