TERRY GILLIAM: I felt with Holy Grail that Terry and I started well, and the two of us always seemed to see things in the same way, but when it actually came to working I didn’t think we did see it in the same way ultimately. It was just dreadful, because here were two people, both of them very, very strong personalities, wanting control of everything. Do we go to Jonesy, do we go to Gilliam? After Holy Grail I think Gilliam had a nervous breakdown. I think as soon as Terry Gilliam had done Jabberwocky he felt, ‘Right, my future is to make my own movies and not try and rumble on the Pythons again because it’s just not worth it.’ĮRIC IDLE: (.) How do you deal with it? It’s a dreadful situation. MICHAEL PALIN: (…) had done was say, ‘What the heck, I’m going to make a film I want to make,’ and he’d gone to Sandy Lieberson and John Goldstone and put together Jabberwocky. God bless him.Īfter his not very happy directing experience in Holy Grail, what Terry Gilliam
The most anybody’s ever paid for a cinema ticket in history. He paid for it because he wanted to see it. MICHAEL PALIN: Then George proved to be true to his word, he paid for the whole thing he mortgaged his house and raised the money, it was extraordinary. I’d met George when Eric and I were out in LA promoting Holy Grail. TERRY GILLIAM: It was literally at the last moment: the crew was leaving on Saturday to go to Tunisia and on the Thursday Bernie Delfont read the script, thought it was blasphemous and pulled out, literally two days before we were due to leave. So he withdrew and paid us compensation and there was a secrecy clause, which we Pythons, naughty little things that we were, always pointed out with great delight, because there wasn’t a secrecy clause about the secrecy clause. JOHN CLEESE: I heard that Delfont was worried because one of his brothers had financed Jesus of Nazareth, and had got a lot of prestige out of it, and he suddenly thought he would be compared very unfavourably with his brother for producing a parody of it. Then Eric rang up George Harrison and George had been thinking about setting up a film company, so he talked to Denis O’Brien, his manager, and they agreed to set up a film company together, which they wanted to call British Handmade Films, but Companies House wouldn’t allow them to call it ‘British’, so they just had to call it Handmade Films. So they settled, and paid us the £50,000. So they didn’t really have a leg to stand on, because they were trying to say no, they’d never said they were going to do it. Fortunately somebody passed us some internal memos from EMI which had been sent round, EMI saying ‘We’re lucky enough to have the new Python movie’ and all this kind of stuff. TERRY JONES: We got wind that EMI had suddenly pulled out and I think by this stage we’d spent about £50,000. (.) Delfont got cold feet, they all got cold feet and pulled out of it when we’d already started to spend money on the production and so we sued them. He thought the l was “obscene and sacrilegious”.
When he finally did, shortly before the shooting was to begin, he decided not to allow the film to go forward. A production cancelled the very last minuteĮRIC IDLE: Bernard Delfont (…) the producer of the film, hadn’t read the script. We’d never been like that because we’d always been geographically a few miles apart anyway and had to agree when to get together. The way we worked when we were away in Barbados was unheard of since the very earliest Python shows, for us all to be in one place at the same time for two weeks. And then the various characters that one had written, like the Centurion who goes all the way through played by John, would be the result of group discussion. What would happen was individuals or writing groups would take a certain section and move it on a bit or write a stoning scene which obviously fitted in next to something. O yeah, I totally forgot.This proves your IQ of more quantity than mine.MICHAEL PALIN: Brian was our last really good group experience in writing terms. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of eliberries! I made a threat? Come now, I'm not THAT lame. Nothing exept complain and/or made stupid threats that only show how much of an idiot you really are. I told you to give yourself a star, so, go for it. however.he cant do ANYTHING about it exept bitch about it.Īnd you're bitching about a stupid kid who hates people who like something, right? Does that make you more or less intelligent than me? because its just about a stupid kid who hates something, and hates people that hates it.
I amm surprised that this tread had lasted this long. Never said so.but this ISN'T a communist society, so, I'm allowed to express my opinion, right? Yes, because obviously your opinion is everyone esles opinion.
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