Cannes Adds Long-Awaited The Man Who Killed Don Quixote as Closing Film

It has now been confirmed that Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote will serve as the closing night film at the 71st Cannes Film Festival, according to The Guardian. The long-awaited film has been Gilliam’s baby for over 20 years—originally, Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort were attached to star. This will be a nice treat for Gilliam and the film he’s put his heart and soul into for the past two decades. Former Pirates of the Caribbean and Game of Thrones star Jonathan Pryce stars as Quixote, with Star Wars and former Girls star Adam Driver playing Toby Grisoni, a modern-day marketing executive who acts as Pryce’s Sancho Panza. The film also stars Stellan Skarsgard and Olga Kurylenko.

In addition to Don Quixote making the official selection list, Lars Von Trier will be making his return to Cannes after a seven-year ban due to some Nazi-related jokes he made during a press conference for his 2011 film Melancholia, which earned Kirsten Dunst the Best Actress prize at the festival. His newest film The House that Jack Built stars Matt Dillon, Riley Keough and Bruno Ganz, and follows the growth of a serial killer named Jack over the course of 12 years.