Terry Gilliam

American-British filmmaker

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2024 Terry Gilliam is an executive producer for the 'Time Bandits' TV series, which is based on his original film of the same name.
June 2024 Announced a new film called The Carnival at the End of Days, set to star Johnny Depp (as Satan), Jeff Bridges (as God), Adam Driver, and Jason Momoa, with production expected to begin in January 2025.
June 2024 Announced a new film called The Carnival at the End of Days, set to star Johnny Depp (as Satan), Jeff Bridges (as God), Adam Driver, and Jason Momoa, with production expected to begin in January 2025.
2022 Terry Gilliam serves as an Executive Producer for the film 'Amok'
August 2022 Premiered co-directed production of Into the Woods at the Theatre Royal, Bath, receiving positive reviews.
August 2022 Premiered co-directed production of Into the Woods at the Theatre Royal, Bath, receiving positive reviews.
2020 Directed 'Bye Bye Morons', continuing his unique filmmaking style
September 2020 Terry Gilliam was set to direct 'Lunatic at Large', an unproduced Stanley Kubrick project, with a planned September film shoot. The project was ultimately cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with Gilliam noting the pandemic 'ruined everything'. The intended cast included Benicio Del Toro, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Lily-Rose Depp.
2018 After many years of development challenges, Terry Gilliam finally completed and released 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote', a long-gestating passion project that became legendary in film production history.
2018 Terry Gilliam confirmed that he had turned down an offer to direct one of the Alien film sequels, likely referring to Alien 3, though the specific sequel was not definitively specified.
June 2018 At the Brussels International Film Festival, Gilliam announced he was actively working on Mr. Vertigo and had Ralph Fiennes attached to star in the project.
May 19 2018 The Man Who Killed Don Quixote premiered as the closing film of the Cannes Film Festival, receiving a standing ovation.
May 19 2018 The Man Who Killed Don Quixote premiered as the closing film of the Cannes Film Festival, receiving a standing ovation.
2017 His daughter Holly renounced her American citizenship.
2017 His daughter Holly renounced her American citizenship.
June 4 2017 Announced the completion of shooting The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.
June 4 2017 Announced the completion of shooting The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.
March 2017 Began filming The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, starring Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce.
March 2017 Began filming The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, starring Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce.
May 2016 At the Cannes Film Festival, confirmed The Man Who Killed Don Quixote would be made, with Michael Palin and Adam Driver in starring roles.
May 2016 At the Cannes Film Festival, confirmed The Man Who Killed Don Quixote would be made, with Michael Palin and Adam Driver in starring roles.
2015 Gilliam worked on two films: 'Jupiter Ascending' and 'Absolutely Anything'
November 2015 Gilliam and LaGravenese regain the rights to the script from Paramount and rework it as a six-hour miniseries.
June 2015 Gilliam hints at potentially developing The Defective Detective as a miniseries on Amazon Prime Video.
2014 Gilliam was involved in 'Monty Python Live (Mostly)', a reunion show featuring the surviving Monty Python members
2014 Terry Gilliam was in discussions with Laika studio to develop his first animated stop-motion feature film, potentially following the studio's previous successful works like Coraline and ParaNorman.
June 2014 Directed a new opera production of Benvenuto Cellini at the English National Opera (ENO).
June 2014 Directed a new opera production of Benvenuto Cellini at the English National Opera (ENO).
2013 Terry Gilliam released the science fiction film 'The Zero Theorem', starring Christoph Waltz as a computer programmer working on a mysterious project.
2013 In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Gilliam publicly expressed his frustration about being passed over for directing the first Harry Potter film, stating that he was 'the clear choice' and criticizing Columbus' subsequent films as 'terrible' and 'pedestrian'.
2013 Gilliam revealed that after Kubrick's death, he learned that Kubrick had been interested in having him direct a Strangelove sequel, which Gilliam expressed he would have loved to do.
September 2 2013 The Zero Theorem premiered at the 70th Venice International Film Festival.
September 2 2013 The Zero Theorem premiered at the 70th Venice International Film Festival.
September 16 2012 Gilliam's opera production of The Damnation of Faust opened at the Vlaamse Opera in Ghent, Belgium, in the original French-language version, receiving critical acclaim.
September 16 2012 Gilliam's opera production of The Damnation of Faust opened at the Vlaamse Opera in Ghent, Belgium, in the original French-language version, receiving critical acclaim.
August 13 2012 Announced The Zero Theorem film project, to be shot in Bucharest, Romania, starring Christoph Waltz and produced by Dean Zanuck.
August 13 2012 Announced The Zero Theorem film project, to be shot in Bucharest, Romania, starring Christoph Waltz and produced by Dean Zanuck.
2011 Terry Gilliam directed and wrote 'The Wholly Family'
2011 Gilliam publicly expressed regret about initially entering into talks to direct the first Harry Potter film.
June 2011 Terry Gilliam and Paul Auster collaborated to write a screenplay for a film adaptation of Auster's novel Mr. Vertigo during the second half of the year.
May 2011 Terry Gilliam made his opera debut at London's English National Opera (ENO), directing The Damnation of Faust by Hector Berlioz.
May 2011 Terry Gilliam made his opera debut at London's English National Opera (ENO), directing The Damnation of Faust by Hector Berlioz.
2010 Terry Gilliam appeared in 'The Legend of Hallowdega' as an uncredited Senior Citizen in a Photo

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