Actors Adam Driver and Olga Kurylenko will play in the film “the Man who killed don Quixote” British Director Terry Gilliam, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film, which Gilliam conceived nearly 20 years ago, will begin in October.
“Over the years I have had many versions of this story, and each has varied with the new cast. And finally, we have collected a perfect composition. A driver is the person I was looking for all these years. Thank God for “Star wars” — now Adam Driver in price!” — the Director said on Wednesday, may 18, at a press conference in Cannes. He added that he hoped to present a picture at the next Cannes film festival.
The driver, who played Kyle Wren in the picture of 2015 Star wars: the force Awakening”, got the role of Toby Gresini — man of the XXI century, which enters the XVII century and which don Quixote takes Sancho Panza. The don Quixote in Gilliam’s project plays Michael Palin. About the role you will receive Kurylenko, known for such films as “quantum of solace” and “Max Payne” was not reported.
Since 1998, Gilliam tried seven times to start shooting “the Man who killed don Quixote”, but due to financial, legal and other problems the project was stopped. Among the actors who had to play in the film — johnny Depp, Ewan McGregor, Jean Rochefort, Robert Duvall. In 2002, on the unsuccessful history of the production of “don Quixote” made a documentary “lost in La Mancha (Lost in La Mancha).
