While he is trying once again to get the film off the ground (buying back the rights from the insurance company that now owns them), I think any further productions should have a motto of Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here. [Gilliam is currently working on Brothers Grimm and has, unforunately, dropped Good Omens]
I saw much of Quixote himself in Gilliam during this film. Not so much that he was tilting at windmills, but that he dared to take the windmills on to begin with, and how he kept at it depsite the negativity and bad fortune that followed The Man who Killed Don Quixote (which, from the frames of it we did get to see during La Mancha , looks like a fabulous, freaky movie) from year to year.
[On an interesting aside, I am currently reading Roger Simon's Director's Cut, which also deals with directing a film.
From both reading Simon's novel and watching Lost in La Mancha, you can be sure any daydreams I had about some day directing a movie have been washed away. ]
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