Lost in La Mancha
Lost in La Mancha is a 2002 documentary film about Terry Gilliams unfinished film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a film adaptation of the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. It was shot in 2000 during Gilliams first attempt to make the film with the purpose of being its makingof, but Gilliams failure in making the movie led it to be retitled Lost in la Mancha and to be released independently.
Finding the source material written by Miguel de Cervantes too vast, Gilliam and his cowriter decided to create their own version of the Quixote story, including a major change inspired by Mark Twains novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court. The character of Sancho Panza would appear only very early in the film, to be replaced by Toby Grisoni, a twentyfirst century marketing executive thrown back through time, whom Quixote mistakes for Panza.Terry Gilliam was very excited to make this movie, since Don Quixote embodies many of the themes that run through his own work such as the individual versus society, the concept of sanity, etc.. The entire movie would have been filmed in Spain and throughout Europe. Jean Rochefort was picked to play Don Quixote, in preparation for which he spent seven months learning English. Toby was to be played by Johnny Depp, and Vanessa Paradis would have been his love interest. ........
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