Terry Gilliam’s Epically Troubled ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote:’ A Brief History

Terry Gilliam has tried to make his film “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” for two decades, and it’s finally completed and ready to be screened at this month’s Cannes Film Festival…if it doesn’t befall some other spectacular cursed bad luck.

It’s the quintessential production from hell, complete with on-set injuries, lost funding, natural disasters and outsize ambitions worthy of the hero of Cervantes’ classic novel. Now that the film is almost at the finish line, a lawsuit threatened to derail the film from screening at Cannes, and Amazon Studios pulled out of a deal to distribute the film in the U.S.

So the irony isn’t lost on anyone that Gilliam’s quest to make a movie about Don Quixote has been nothing if not quixotic.