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Along with Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg is the one of the few directors whose brain is warped enough to attempt a screen adaption of the nigh unfilmable junky novel ‘Naked Lunch’ by William S. Burroughs.
It was made in 1991 but I’ve only now gotten to see it for the first time and discovered it to be a bizarre combination of the source text, Burroughs’ own life and ‘Metamorphosis’.
“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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