Terry Gilliam Returns to 'Quixote'

To Hell with the latest sequels, reboots or comic-book properties, this is film-news to be excited about, folks!

After years of promises and reassurances, director Terry Gilliam (Brazil) is finally getting back to work on The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.

For those who don't know (or remember), the Time Bandits helmer began work on the project back in 2000 with Johnny Depp as the lead where damn-near everything that could possibly go wrong on a film set did. After just five days of filming, the project fell apart.

A film-crew was there to document the entire ordeal, and Lost In La Mancha came as a result - a great documentary, and (for my money) required viewing for anyone who wants a career in filmmaking.

Now Gilliam and his writing-partner-in-crime Tony Grisoni have (finally) gotten back the rights to their script and just recently got back to work on it:

"[We] finally got the script back. I re-read the greatest script ever written and realize we gotta get rewriting! I really wanna knock that one out in the next month or so."

Gilliam seems to be going through a real creative second-wind with the release of his upcoming film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and now this.

And we can only assume Depp will return for Quixote as well. I mean he's said quiet a few times he would were it ever to resurface.