Terry Gilliam Apologizes For His Death, And Watch A Trailer For His Memoir ‘Gilliamesque’

For once, things were looking up for Terry Gilliam. His last movie  “The Zero Theorem” received better notices on the whole than some of his previous pictures, and after years of seemingly fruitless questing, Amazon stepped up to finance his longtime passion project “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” and potentially other projects, including a miniseries version of his old script “The Defective Detective.”

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And then he had to go and die! For about ten minutes. If you read Variety anyway: the trade accidentally published an obituary for the american Monty Python animator and filmmaking great yesterday, sparking a brief spout of Twitter panic and then a million jokes about dead parrots. Gilliam responded in typically hilarious fashion on his Facebook page, saying “I APOLOGIZE FOR BEING DEAD, especially to those who have already bought tickets to the...