{"id":1293,"date":"2017-05-21T17:36:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T17:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/05\/21\/the-man-who-killed-don-quixote-hits-yet-another-snag-as-production-company-deems-it-patently-illegal\/"},"modified":"2017-05-21T17:36:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T17:36:22","slug":"the-man-who-killed-don-quixote-hits-yet-another-snag-as-production-company-deems-it-patently-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/05\/21\/the-man-who-killed-don-quixote-hits-yet-another-snag-as-production-company-deems-it-patently-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Man Who Killed Don Quixote\u2019 Hits Yet Another Snag as Production Company Deems It \u2018Patently Illegal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Man Who Killed Don Quixote<\/a>” has had so much trouble getting made that it would almost be a letdown if the long-gestating project ever sees the light of day. Terry Gilliam<\/a> has been tilting at windmills for nearly 20 years at this point, and now the film has hit a new snag: Alfama Films released a statement on Friday deeming it “patently illegal.”<\/span><\/p>\n

READ MORE: Terry Gilliam Has Begun Shooting \u2018The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,\u2019 For Real This Time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Alfama\u2019s Paulo Branco spoke to the Hollywood Reporter<\/a> at Cannes, accusing Gilliam of “clandestinely” working on the film behind his back and even \u201cpursuing the production with other partners.\u201d Whether true or not, such a strange state of affairs is certainly apropos of the Cervantes’ charmingly (and tragically) out-of-his-depth knight errant.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” first entered pre-production in 1998 and, at one point or another, everyone from Jean Rochefort and Johnny Depp to Robert Duvall and Ewan McGregor has been attached to it. A documentary about these troubles, “Lost in La Mancha,” was released in 2005. Jonathan Pryce and Adam Driver star in the current iteration, which was announced at Cannes last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

READ MORE: Terry Gilliam\u2019s Passion Project \u2018The Man Who Killed Don Quixote\u2019 Delayed Just Days Before Production<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The film’s producers released a statement of their own, claiming that Branco has “no rights whatsoever to ‘Don Quixote’” and that his accusations are “preposterous”; they’re also suing him in four different countries. (Perhaps it’s actually Branco, not Gilliam, who’s the most quixotic character in this story?) \u201cSenhor Branco\u2019s interpretation of the law borders on the picaresque,\u201d added Peter Watson. \u201cIf he really wants to kill the venerable don, I suggest he takes up jousting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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