Dreams: The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
...edited by Phil Stubbs
17 December 2007
Two websites have reports from the shooting of the new Gilliam film, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus:
Website London SE1 has two pictures of the Imaginarium itself...
...and Just Jared has pictures from the night shoot at Blackfriars bridge on 15 December - but beware there are SPOILERS.
14 December 2007
Variety reported the start of the Dr Parnassus shoot. In an article by Adam Dawtrey. Gilliam is quoted as saying:
"It's autobiographical. I'm trying to bring a bit of fantasticality to London, an antidote to modern lives. I loved this idea of an ancient travelling show offering the kind of storytelling and wonder that we used to get, to people who are just into shoot-em-up action films. Parnassus is trying to bring amazement to people, and not doing a very good job of it, because they aren't paying attention to him. But if they will enter his mirror, and allow their imagination to mix with his, they enter these extraordinary worlds, and they come back transcendent -- or they strangely disappear."
9 December 2007
The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus has begun shooting in London this evening. Location shooting will be followed by studio work in Vancouver and after that a model unit will shoot, and CGI work will be performed in London.
13 October 2007
It's been confirmed that The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, Terry Gilliam's new feature, will start shooting in December.
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A preview page dedicated to The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus has been added to Dreams, containing cast list, concept design and a synopsis. Roles have been announced for Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Verne Troyer, Andrew Garfield, Lily Cole and Tom Waits.
3 October 2007
It's been confirmed to Dreams that Terry Gilliam is in preproduction on The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. More news to follow...
7 September 2007
A Belgian website called Digg has a new interview with Terry Gilliam. Regarding his next project (presumably Dr Parnassus), the filmmaker says, “this week is the critical week. By the end of the week, I think I'll know whether we have the financing for the next one”.
5 June 2007
An interview with Gilliam featured in Spanish newspaper El Pais suggests that Gilliam is hoping to cast Tom Waits and Heath Ledger in The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus.
3 March 2007
The movie news website Film Ick managed to get its hands on a script for The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. It's not the latest draft of the script that Film Ick has obtained, but the article contains significant details of the setup and plot of the movie... so read the article if you would like such information at this early stage of the project.
24 February 2007
Terry Gilliam tells Dreams that The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus is the title of the new script he's written with Charles McKeown. This page will be regularly updated with future developments of this project.
23 January 2007
At a screening of Tideland in Hatfield, UK, this evening, Terry Gilliam revealed that he and writing partner Charles McKeown had just finished a new original script. McKeown has collaborated on several projects with Gilliam before, most notably on the 1989 fantasy The Adventures of Baron Munchasen. McKeown also worked on Brazil's shooting script and also the Watchmen script when Gilliam and Joel Silver were attempting to get it to screen.
This is likely to be the script Gilliam has been talking about for a while, about "a person with eternal life who's basically a storyteller, but the world has moved on and his brand of storytelling is of no interest."