John Hurt says he’ll star in Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote movie, if it ever happens

Of course, even since that report, there’s already been another “hiccup,” as Gilliam told Rolling Stone, describing the film as “the Sisyphean rock that keeps rolling back.” Most of that “hiccup” was apparently due to casting, with Gilliam telling Twitch, “The choice is whether we stay with a particular actor or start looking for another. I’m not sure what’s happening at the moment. We’ll see where it goes.”

If it doesn’t go well, this may, really and truly, be Gilliam’s final attempt to make the film. Gilliam told Rolling Stone: “I’m beginning to actually think, ‘If it doesn’t work this time, I’m gonna dump it.’ I’ve wasted far too much of my life doing it. If you’re going to do Quixote, you have to become as mad as Quixote. I’ve wasted how many years? Fifteen? Yeah, there’s a certain point. It’s kind of the determination to be crazy and unreasonable. Every intelligent person around me says, ‘Walk away from it.’ But those are reasonable people.”

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