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The Man Who Killed Don Quixote [at the Cannes Film Festival] next year with the finished film, and then you can ask me why I made such a mess of it or why I made such a wonderful film." Over the years, Gilliam and Grisoni kept on re-writing "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" as they kept on trying to make the film. The most notable change was the removal of the time travelling element present central to the original 2000 production; instead of the character of Grisoni being thrown back through time, the film would instead take place in modern times, with the "period elements"