Back in 2000, if Terry Gilliam had first shot all of the modern segments of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote first, could he have had a better chance at continuing the film production despite all the problems?
When learning more about the cursed production, this has been something I thought about, especially after being influenced by learning about production of The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. With what we saw with all the problems that happened in a short amount of time, cancelling the film's shooting, I noticed that Terry Gilliam had first begun with the 17th century setting first. And with the script, seeing that it would have had the modern day, which Toby would be sent back in time throughout the film, it had me wonder about this: If Terry Gilliam first shot all of the modern day parts of the film first, before the crazier 17th century.
Perhaps if he did that, could it have maybe helped the film's production continue? Especially since there would have already been a lot of the film completed, it may have made producers and financiers be more hesistant about pulling out, and perhaps continuing the production because of a sunken cost fallacy.