“I want to know when we’re fucked in advance” says Terry Gilliam to one of his assistants on the set of his ill fated attempt to film Cervantes’ classic ‘Don Quixote’
If Gilliam’s ‘The Adventures of Baron Munchausen’ has become a byeword for financial disaster, his attempt to film Don Quixote runs it a close second. At least Munchausen got finished even if ran well over budget and died at the box office. All we have of Quixote is the 2002 documentary ‘Lost in La Mancha’ which shows the events leading to the abandonment of the project after just 5 days of shooting and a huge insurance claim.
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