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Our eyebrows raised last July when we learned that Apple had landed a deal to turn Terry Gilliam 's cult fantasy time travel heist road movie Time Bandits into a TV series. We were heartened to learn that Gilliam would have input, and we're further happy to report that Taika Waititi has signed up to write and direct the pilot for the series. Gilliam's 1981 movie follows the time-traveling adventures of an 11-year-old history buff named Kevin who, one night, stumbles on six dwarfs who emerge from his closet. They are former workers of the Supreme Being (Ralph Richardson) who have stolen a map that charts all the holes in the space-time fabric, using it to hop from one historical era to the next in order to steal riches. Throughout the movie, they meet various historical and fictional characters, including Napoleon Bonaparte ( Ian Holm ) and Robin Hood ( John Cleese ), while the Supreme Being simultaneously tries to catch up to them and retrieve the map. There's c...

Here is the first trailer for sci-fi comedy Absolutely Anything . The film stars Simon Pegg, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin,Kate Beckinsale,Rob Riggle  and Robin Williams . Simon Pegg stars in the film as Neil Clarke, a teacher at a failing secondary school who is unexpectedly given great power by a group of aliens – voiced by director Terry Jones and Monty Python pals John Cleese, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin – who are deciding whether the planet Earth lives or dies based on his actions. Unfortunately, Neill goes ahead and does what we suspect many of us would, and shamelessly uses them to improve his life. And even when he does try to make things better (such as reanimating the dead), it all goes comically wrong. Through all of that, he’s also got to try to win the heart of Catherine, the woman he loves (Kate Beckinsale) while dealing with his best friend, Dennis the dog, who can now talk (via a performance by the late Robin Williams). Will Neil...

Ewan McGregor To Star in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Ewan McGregor has joined the cast of his long-delayed film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote . McGregor will take on the role that Johnny Depp had been set to play in the original, aborted version back in 2000. Depp had still been attached to the role for this version, but with Pirates Of The Caribbean 4 eating into his schedule, and a September start date looming for The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Gilliam has clearly decided to go with McGregor instead. McGregor will play, if the current version remains faithful to the original attempt, a 21st century advertising executive who travels back in time to 17th century Spain, where he meets Don Quixote and becomes involved in adventures with him. Robert Duvall has been on board the revamped film, as Quixote, for some time, replacing Jean Rochefort. But the addition of McGregor is brand new. "Robert Duvall is one of the greats, no question - and he can ride a horse!" lau...

“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” Johnny Depp and Jude Law Open Up Reps for the Sony Pictures Classics release “ The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus ,” the latest fantasia from Terry Gilliam, are distributing statements from co-stars Johnny Depp and Jude Law. This was the film Heath Ledger was working on when he died last year, and Gilliam asked Depp, Law and Colin Farrell to help finish the film as variations on Ledger’s character. Johnny Depp and Jude Law on Heath Ledger and Doctor Parnassus Here are the statements: JOHNNY DEPP: “Maestro Gilliam has made a sublime film. Wonderfully enchanting and beautiful, ‘The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus’ is a uniquely ingenious, captivating creation; by turns wild, thrilling and hilarious in all its crazed, dilapidated majesty. Pure Gilliam magic!!! It was an honor to represent Heath. He was the only player out there breathing heavy down the back of every established actors neck with a thundering and ungovernable talent that came up on y...