A New Trailer For The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Has Arrived

Terry Gilliam’s long-awaited The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is on its way to theaters at last, and the official trailer is here. You can see the preview below for the film, which co-stars Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce. The film will play in over 700 U.S. cinemas and select Canadian locations for one night on April 10th.

Presented by Fathom Events and Screen Media Films, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is the story of Toby (Driver), a cynical advertising director, who finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker (Pryce) who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth – a film that changed the hopes and dreams of a small Spanish village forever. Can Toby make amends and regain his humanity? Can Don Quixote survive his madness and imminent death? Or will love conquer all?

The road to the screen for the film has been a storied one. Written and directed by Gilliam (Monty Python, Brazil, Time Bandits), the movie has had a truly legendary series of delays and obstacles to its being made. Johnny Depp was set to star as Toby during the original production in 2000, but a series of issues during production including a flash flood and health issues involving Jean Rochefort (the original choice to play Quixote), scuttled the production. Financial problems delayed later attempts to get it off the ground until 2017, when the film was finally done. It survived a legal dispute by former producer Paulo Branco and screened the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.