Quixote Quotient

Ewan McGregor will take over for Johnny Depp in Terry Gilliam’s long-gestating passion project “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, says Empire Online.

Gilliam has tried to make this $35 million feature starring Depp since 2000, but the film famously fell apart during production. now, Gilliam is finally getting it going again, this time with a smaller $20 million budget.

If the story remains the same, McGregor would play advertising executive who travels back to 17th century Spain and becomes caught up in the adventures of Don Quixote.

Robert Duvall has already been cast as Quixote, a role Jean Rochefort was to play originally.

	Director Gilliam tells Empire "Ewan has gotten better over the years... There's a lot of colors to Ewan that he's not been showing recently and it's time for him to show them again. He's got a great sense of humour and he's a wonderful actor. He's wonderfully boyish and can be charming - when he flashes a smile, everybody melts. He wields it like a nuclear bomb!"

Filming on 'Quixote' is scheduled to kick off in September.