Dreams, a Terry Gilliam fansite has just posted an interview with the director, and said interview covered subjects including his long awaited film 'The Brothers Grimm' and his current project 'Tideland'. Phil Stubbs, the site's editor has just posted the huge interview on the site along with some great pics of the man himself.

Tideland is based on the novel by Mitch Cullin. The film tells the story of a young girl who travels with her father to live in a rural farmhouse. Her life takes some unexpected turns, and she invents a fantasy world where "fireflies have names, bog men awaken at dusk, monster sharks swim down railroad tracks, and disembodied Barbie heads are all-important confidants and advisers."


Phil Stubbs: Can you tell me how Tideland is going?
Terry Gilliam: Surprisingly well…. almost disturbingly well. I think maybe after today we're probably one day over schedule, but for the first five weeks we've been right on schedule. We were up against the weather, because when the weather sets in in Saskatchewan, it sets in forever. Snow is the thing we feared.

For the first three weeks, we were out in the Qu'Appelle Valley. During pre-production, the weather was terrible! It was snowing, it was doing everything. It was terrifying. But we went out shooting for three weeks, and it was beautiful. The weather did all the right things. And when the character Dell came on, played by Janet McTeer, the winds always came up in hurricane force, which became part of her character.

I remember on the last day we finished out there, we woke up in the morning, and there was three or four inches of snow. So we scurried off into the studios for a week, hunkering down, and then went out again last week, and the weather was stunning. So we've managed our exteriors, and now we're safely ensconced in our soundstages for the next five weeks.

Now, what is the current status of The Brothers Grimm?
The current status of Grimm is still a little bit unclear. Up until a few days ago we thought we had to deliver the film for financial reasons by the end of March next year. But now I've just been told I have to deliver the film sometime in June.

Your final cut?
Yes. Due to the funding, there's restrictions on when it has to be delivered, so that's now the current date - we have to deliver by June. And at the moment over here Lesley Walker, who's also editing Tideland, and I have been working on the weekends on Grimm.

What work remains on it?
We've still got quite a few shots that aren't finalised on Grimm cgi-wise. In the end there's been about 750 cgi shots, and there's about 50 that aren't finished yet. And right now there's a lot of going round in circles about how much is left financially and the budget to pay for these things and how many shots are critical. So there's a lot of negotiations going on.

It seems that Gilliam is still interested in finishing his Don Quixote film also.


Johnny Depp is in London. We keep talking about Quixote, and we keep talking about Good Omens. So there's a lot of talk going on