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From a first look at ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ to a surprise move by Johnny Depp, here’s what we’re paying attention to in today’s Daily Blunt.
Terry Gilliam has tried to adapt Don Quixote in the past, and failed so hard that someone actually made a documentary about it. It appears the visionary is back on track, this time with Adam Driver and Michael Palin at his side as he attempts “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” a surreal tribute to Cervantes’ source material with a contemporary twist. Don’t believe us? Check out a few pages of the concept art, which have leaked onto the internet. Windmills, giants, crumbling ruins? Check, check, check. Here’s wishing Gilliam and co. have a much better time of it than his last production — or at the very least, that we get another amazing doc out of it.
Speaking of Johnny Depp (which we sort of were, since he was Gilliam’s original “La Mancha” star), the actor participated in a hilariously unnerving stunt to promote “Alice Through the Looking Glass.” What appeared to passersby at Disneyland Resort as a digital poster for the film turned out to be a live two-way video feed of Depp in costume, interacting with the public in real time. Check out the video below, and exercise a little extra caution around all movie posters from now on — they may be watching you.
Instead of perennially expanding Philip K. Dick’s short stories into full-length films, a la “Total Recall,” Sony Pictures has decided to move ahead with a series called “Electric Dreams: The World of Philip K. Dick,” formatted more like the creepy British hit “Black Mirror,” which condenses sci-fi storylines into episodes about an hour in length. They’ve chosen ten stories to start out with, and Bryan Cranston is already slated to appear. This is a vision of the future we’ll be quite happy to live in, even if it occasionally scares us silly.
In case you missed it (and need a dose of career inspiration), the screenwriter who gave us “Back to the Future” recently divulged that his script was rejected more than forty times. Despite criticisms like “This is time travel, and those movies don’t make any money,” the film went on to make hundreds of millions of dollars. As usual, it was Steven Spielberg who spotted the potential in his script, and the rest is (ceaselessly recurring, but constantly evolving) history.
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