It feels like Terry Gilliam has been attempting to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote for years now. Is now finally the time? During a recent interview following the festival-opening screening of the director’s latest release, The Zero Theorem, Gilliam spoke about his plans to begin work on his long-awaited Miguel de Cervantes adaptation.

Gilliam first began the project in 2000 with Jean Rochefort as Quixote and Johnny Depp in the role of Sancho Panza. Unfortunately, the shoot met with dilemma after dilemma and was never finished, although the behind-the-scenes of the troubled production did end up becoming a feature-length documentary, Lost in La Mancha, in 2002. Other attempts at bringing the project to the big screen have involved Robert Duvall as Quixote and Ewan McGregor as the Sancho Panza.

Now, nearly 14 years later, he is trying it again.

“I’m going to try to do ‘Don Quixote’ again. I think this is the seventh time. Lucky seven, maybe. We’ll see if it happens. This is kind of my default position, going back to that. I actually just want to make it and get rid of it. Get it out of my life,” said Gilliam.

There is currently no word as to which cast members might be involved this time around, but Gilliam seems cautiously optimistic that he might finally bring his impossible dream to life.