According to Contact Music, the director is one step closer to sending Don Quixote and Sancho Panza off to tilt at windmills. Gilliam is nothing if not determined, and has spent eight years fighting to get the movie rights back from the insurance company that paid out after the disaster. Speaking at a tribute affair in London last week, Gilliam seemed confident that the project would, indeed, be moving forward. His own theory -- perhaps jokingly, perhaps not -- is that God "saved his ass" by wiping out the original production with that flood of nearly Biblical proportions. At the time, Gilliam says, he didn't have the financing to finish the movie and believes he would have had to go over budget. This second attempt will be a better film, he says. He still has original co-starring actor Johnny Depp interested in resuming his role, but will Gilliam's luck hold out long enough to finally finish the project?