Terry Gilliam's Amazon Deal Includes The (In)Famous Don Quixote And A Defective Detective Miniseries

Terry Gilliam's relationship with Hollywood has been nothing short of miraculous, in that they had one. Brazil was locked in a vault by the studio, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen would have been the death of the visionary director if it had not been for The Fisher King, and keeping up with tradition, The Weinstein Company butted heads with Gilliam all through production of The Brothers Grimm.

Escaping the studio paradigm, Gilliam recently signed on with Amazon Studios to produce, write, and direct original content, which apparently include the LONG gestating The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, and a Defective Detective miniseries.

Speaking to The Playlist, the filmmaker revealed that he's still working on his "madness", aka The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which hopefully will start production in early 2016 with John Hurt as Don Quixote, and Jack O'Connell in an undisclosed role.

"I’m intrigued by their way of doing it," the director said. "They go into the cinemas first and then a month or two afterwards they go into streaming. And I think that’s good because you get a chance to see it on the big screen, and yet I know that more people have seen my films on DVD than they have in the cinemas and that’s the reality of life now." 

Gilliam continued to praise not only Amazon, but also this new business model, which unlike the established studios, is willing to take risks. "Amazon and the like are interesting because they are all still in their formative stages," he said. "They’re not a bureaucracy that has been around for years like the studio system, and so they’re full of people that are open to new and fresh ideas. So it’s a good time to be working with people like that."

Finally, the director winked and teased that Defective Detective, and old project he co-wrote with Fisher King scribe Richard LaGravenese would be turned into a miniseries like he wanted, and that it is also included in the Amazon package.

"I’ve got a couple other things I’m playing with," he said. "A couple of old scripts that have been wallowing within the studio system; we’ve got them out, so we’re going to stretch them out. So what was going to become a two and a half hour movie will now become a six-eight part TV series."

What do you think?

Source - The Playlist

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