Ewan McGregor is to replace Johnny Depp in Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote movie.
The film has been a dream project for the The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus director for many year but it's a project that has been plagued with set backs.
Sets have been destroyed and there have been financial problems as Gilliam battled to get the film to the big screen.
Depp pulled out of the movie earlier this year, citing scheduling issues; he is set to reprise the role of Jack Sparrow in a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie.
But Gilliam has announced that McGregor will star in the movie alongside Robert Duvall.
Speaking to Empire magazine he said: "Robert Duvall is one of the greats, no question, and he can ride a horse. And Ewan has gotten better over the years. He was wonderful in The Ghost.
"There's a lot of colours to Ewan that he's not been showing recently and it's time for him to show them again.
"He's got a great sense of humour and he's a wonderful actor. He's wonderfully boyish and can be charming - when he flashes a smile, everybody melts. He wields it like a nuclear bomb."
The actor is currently working on The Last Word, which sees him work with Eva Green, and will lend his voice to movie Jackboots on Whitehall.
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