Terry Gilliam is determined his latest attempt to make a Don Quixote film will succeed after two decades of disaster.
The Monty Python star first attempted to make the film, based on the 17th Century novel by Miguel de Cervantes about a deluded Spanish nobleman, in 1998, but failed numerous times.
According to editors at Spanish newspaper El Pais, Terry, 76, began filming the movie earlier this month (Mar17), with Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce and Olga Kurylenko.
The delighted filmmaker told the newspaper, "Making my version of Don Quixote is a medical obligation. It is a brain tumour that I have to remove as it is."
Terry's adaptation, titled The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, became such a notoriously ill-fated production that a documentary, Lost In La Mancha, was made about his attempts to make the film with Johnny Depp and Jeff Bridges in 2000.
A film shoot was abandoned after several days when a flash flood damaged the crew's equipment and French actor Jean Rochefort, who was portraying Quixote, herniated a disc.
The halt to production resulted in a $15 million (£12 million) insurance claim - and rights to the film's script were handed over to insurers, preventing Terry pursuing the project any further.
By 2009, the filmmaker had regained the rights to the script but another attempt to restart the project with Ewan McGregor and Robert Duvall as the leading men stalled again.
Production was postponed in 2015 after new star John Hurt was diagnosed with cancer. John's cancer went into remission and the project appeared to be back on track, but the actor passed away in January (17).
With Jonathan taking on John's title role, Terry now appears to be finally realising his dream of making the film, but given his previous misfortune, the director is wary of treating Don Quixote like any other project.
"Don Quixote is extremely dangerous for any adapter because you end up becoming the character," he added. "You live in a world that is not yours."