Amazon is poised to pull out of distributing Terry Gilliam’s “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” in the United States, Variety has confirmed.The film has been embroiled in an ongoing legal dispute over its ownership.
A court decision on whether it can be screened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival is expected Wednesday.“The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” has had a tortured production history.
Gilliam started shooting the picture in 1998 with Jean Rochefort as Quixote and Johnny Depp playing a marketing executive who is sent back in time.
However, shooting stopped after Rochefort became ill and the film was plagued with financial difficulties and insurance problems.
Gilliam’s plagued production was the subject of a 2002 documentary “Lost in La Mancha.” The director tried to re-start the film at several different points, with the likes of Robert Duvall, Michael Palin, John Hurt, Ewan McGregor, and Jack O
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