Jack O'Connell to tilt at lead role in Terry Gilliam's revived Don Quixote film

The former Skins star follows Johnny Depp and Ewan McGregor in signing up for the lead role in Gilliams much-delayed fantasy epic

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Former Skins star Jack OConnells latest high-profile Hollywood role will be as the lead in Terry Gilliams famously long-gestating Don Quixote movie, the directors seventh attempt to bring the story to the big screen, reports Variety.

OConnell, who is also starring in Angelina Jolies second world war biopic Unbroken and currently on screens in the Troubles-set thriller 71, will play the role variously earmarked for Johnny Depp and Ewan McGregor in previous iterations of Gilliams fantasy epic. The UK-based film-maker hopes to finally begin shooting in the spring for a 2016 release, a remarkable 17 years after the Spanish set of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote was hit by flash floods in 1999. Seven is my lucky number so lets break the curse and make it! joked Gilliam of his Sisyphean efforts.

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