Things were looking good. There were producers interested in Good Omens, a project just aching for treatment by the master filmmaker; the substantially bankable Johnny Depp and Robin Williams were attached (though not yet contracted) to star; Terry needed another $15 million to get the project going, and it seems no one is going to put it up.This had the potential to be Gilliam's best since Brazil, and like The Defective Detective and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote it seems to have fallen by the wayside. There always seems to be some force at work intent on preventing the completion or release of Gilliam's films, as if Sid Scheinberg were conjuring up gremlins and afreets to stop him. It's truly maddening.
There are, however, two glimmers of hope in all of this dreck. Gilliam says if Good Omens really collapses (for now), he will go on and do Mitch Cullin's Tideland first, which will require about 15% of the budget needed for Good Omens.
And if anyone here is starved for Gilliam like I am, they can head on over to NikeFootball.com and download a three-minute (!) ad that he directed. It's like a bread crust when compared to what is normally a feast, but at least it's something.
Anyone else upset that Gilliam's plans are once again being quashed?
Kirk
