Don Quixote: Last News

Naman Ramachandran Terry Gilliam’s “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” has endured its latest legal hurdle.The U.K.’s Royal Courts of Justice have ruled in favor of the Jeremy Thomas-owned Recorded Picture Company (RPC), and against France’s Alfama Film Productions and CEO Paulo Branco over a rights dispute relating to Gilliam’s 2018 film, which starred Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce.The dispute dates back to 2016, when RPC first entered into a deed with Alfama, giving them the option to produce the project.

You’d think Terry Gilliam would like to take a break after finally getting his Don Quixote movie “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” out to the public after nearly 30 years, or after giving one problematic comment after another. Apparently, the filmmaker has no intention of taking a break, and he was even going to start shooting a film based on an idea by Stanley Kubrick this September before the lockdown put a stop to it.

Wishbone — the Jack Russell terrier with a penchant for literary classics — is getting the feature film treatment via Oscar winner Peter Farrelly. Universal and Mattel Films are teaming for the project, a modern take on the beloved PBS series that ran from 1996 through 2001.

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Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentLondon-based production, finance and sales outfit Film Constellation has closed key deals on documentary “He Dreams of Giants,” charting Terry Gilliam’s 30-year journey to bring the story of Don Quixote to life on screen.The film is the follow up from Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe’s “Lost in La Mancha” (2002), which focused on Gilliam’s first, and ill-fated attempt to tell the same story.Film Constellation has sold both films to Scandinavia and the Baltics (NonStop Entertainment), and “He Dreams of Giants” has also been sold to German-speaking territories (Koch Media), and Poland (Mayfly).Both films are directed by Fulton and Pepe.