Johnny Depp’s Return to Gilliam’s ‘Don Quixote’ Now in Question

Back in 2000, Director Terry Gilliam started work on The Man Who Killed Don Quixote with Johnny Depp. Due to production constraints, the project wound up falling through. In a Cannes-related interview, Gilliam told Variety, “I’m not so much a filmmaker as someone who gets possessed by an idea and it doesn’t leave me until I make the film, I commit myself to it so fully,” which sounds like it could be a quote from Quixote himself.

When CHUD interviewed Depp at a Public Enemies press event, writer Devin Faraci asked if Depp had been addressed by Gilliam to return to La Mancha. Depp said they’ve talked, but not to get your hopes up.

‘I love Terry and I’d do personally anything the guy wants to do. The thing with Quixote is that my dance card is pretty nutty for the next couple of years, so I’d hate to put him in a position to wait for me. That would be wrong. We went there and tried for something and whatever it was – the elements and whatever got up beneath us were there and were documented well in that film Lost in La Mancha. I don’t know if it’s right for me to go back there.’

As he stands right now, Johnny Depp is already involved in Sin City 3, Pirates of the Caribbean 4, The Lone Ranger, In the Hands of Dante, Happy Days (Man, I hope he’s the Fonz!), and a few others.

Source: FirstShowing.net