The Movie: A long break between films (partly forced by the collapse of The Man Who Killed Don Quoxote), but sadly his return to big studio filmmaking – well, Miramax/Dimension – didn’t exactly turn out to be a solid return.

Trouble with the movie (see below) and a frankly dodgy script resulted in something that has small moments to enjoy (particularly the banter between Heath Ledger and Matt Damon) but very little else. Mighty = fallen.

Terry’s Trials: “They’re always a fight! I don’t know if it has to be. I’ve made films that weren’t fights, but they tend to get the adrenaline going,” Gilliam told us at the junket. “A fight tends to clarify what’s important and not important to me. If you’re fighting for something – ‘Okay, I’ll give you that, but I’m going to keep that,’ – it’s not the worst thing to happen, but I don’t particularly enjoy them.

“We had casting fights and there were some make-up things and a few other things like that. I remember saying to Bob Weinstein, ‘listen Bob, we’re both independent, we’ve both been successful in our own way, we both think we’re right. This could be a difficult marriage...’And to give them their due, most of the time when I’ve dealt with studios, there’s nobody there that believes in anything strongly enough, so you can work your way around them. But it wasn’t the easiest…”