5/6/2023 0 Comments Time bandit film![]() “I wanted to do it all from the kid’s point of view. “I got about a bunch of people that were involved in working for God, during the creation and living in heaven, who just got bored with that nice, lovely, heavenly lifestyle and wanted to go out on the road to start robbing and pillaging, having some fun,” explains Gilliam, who had decided to write a family film after growing impatient waiting for funding for what would become his subsequent production, BRAZIL. ![]() ![]() All the while, the embodiment of Evil (David Warner) is intent on luring the good-natured thieves into his Fortress of Ultimate Darkness so he can steal the map and remake the universe to his liking. As they swindle their way from portal to portal, they cross paths with Napoleon (played by Ian Holm), Robin Hood (John Cleese), King Agamemnon (Sean Connery) of ancient Greece, an ogre and his wife (Peter Vaughan and Katherine Helmond) in the Land of Legends, an oblivious giant, and more. TIME BANDITS follows the fantastic adventure of a wide-eyed boy named Kevin (played by Craig Warnock), who is whisked away by a band of unwieldy dwarves intent on looting through the ages, thanks to a map of time holes stolen from their boss, the Supreme Being. It’s just everything else has grown old.” Speaking with FM, the director chuckles when he thinks how time has flown by in the blink of an eye since debuting the film that boosted his career. Terry Gilliam’s brilliant TIME BANDITS topped the box office and changed the way we look at family entertainment four decades ago with its philosophical challenges and subversive wit. Now, the inimitable writer-director/former Monty Python trouper shares new behind-the-scenes tales of working with Sean Connery, George Harrison, an untried child actor - and the most entertaining band of dwarves he’s ever had the pleasure of filming. In 1981, Terry Gilliam’s whimsical fantasy-adventure TIME BANDITS enthralled audiences young and old with wit and clever storytelling. With that as their mindset, feel free to go ahead and predict failure for this endeavor, or start planning your “it’s just a kids movie” excuses for when the thing shows up in theaters and is terrible.(This interview article was written for Famous Monsters issue #287) Here’s what I’ve learned in covering movies for nearly a decade: People who make great movies for kids don’t set out to make movies for kids, they just set out to make good movies. They tell Variety their plan is to turn it into a “bigscreen kids action franchise”. In this case using the word reboot to describe what’s being done to Time Bandits is pretty clearly just a nicer way of saying straight-up remake. Their back catalogue is fairly limited though, with only around 30 movies in their library, so in an era where Hollywood is no longer making original material and instead simply mining their back catalogue for movies with name recognition to redo, this was probably inevitable. In addition to Time Bandits Handmade Films was responsible for such classics as Monty Python’s Life of Brian, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and more recently 127 Hours. are produce what they’re calling a “reboot” of the Terry Gilliam classic. Guy Collins, Michael Ryan and Fred Hedman who used to run Handmade Films Intl.
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