Terry Gilliam Wants Robert Duvall to Star in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

By Kevin Coll • December 3, 2009 • View Comments

Terry Gilliam while doing the press tour for his upcoming The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and revealed that he’d found the right man to play Don Quijote de la Mancha in his long gestating, often delayed fantasy film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Gilliam has long tried to get this story off the ground in the Lost in La Mancha documentary we see his first attempt to capture it all on film with Johnny Depp, an attempt that failed.

Today, while attending the Crazy Heart press junket,Collider discovered who the mystery actor is. And it’s none other than the iconic Robert Duvall. You can visit Collider for more on the story.

Terry Gilliam doesn’t have a set start date for this second pass at what could be a quite legendary film. I wasn’t excited about Doctor Parnassus until the other day when I watch the trailer again and I realized that I wanted to see it. I have been hearing about the Don Quixote project for years and its now very cool to see it may be making ways. I also love the idea of Duvall as the character.

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Kevin Coll

Kevin is a film freak, just ask him something movie related and he lights up like a Christmas tree. Originally his destiny was to go to film school, hit LA and try and become the next big thing. Circumstances change but in college, he fell in love with writing. After several failed attempts in starting a legit and hip school online magazine for his university Kevin moved into the blogosphere for himself and began Kevin’s Rant which in 2007 morphed into Fused Film. Kevin has contributed articles on other sites like Geeks of Doom and FilmShaft, he has also been a guest on podcasts for MovieViral and The Film Feed at FS.Net. His favorite movie of all time is Empire Strikes Back, he loves his Chucks, he is an avid Stargate fan and classic rock is his music scene. Email him at: kcoll@fusedfilm.com Follow His Twitter: FusedFilm