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Terry Gilliam Scouts Talent At Annecy As He Plots Animated Sequences For New Johnny Depp-Jeff Bridges Movie

Gilliam raised a cheer from the young crowd packed into the 1,000-seat theatre of Annecy’s Bonlieu cultural complex for the masterclass, when he revealed that aside from the honorary award the main reason he was at the festival was to scout talent for his next film. The movie in question is biblical comedy The Carnival at the End of Days, which Gilliam is aiming to shoot next January with Johnny Depp, Jeff Bridges, Adam Driver and Jason Momoa in the cast, according to fresh details revealed by the director in an interview with French cinema magazine Premiere last week. Revealing a childhood love of animation sparked by Walt Disney movies, Minneapolis-born, L.A.-raised Gilliam recalled his early career in New York under the mentorship of American cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman as assistant editor on his magazine Help!.

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