- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday August 16 2005 11.46 BST
Grimm conclusion ... Terry Gilliam
Director Terry Gilliam hasn't had a film on screen since his Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas came out in 1998. Now, he's got two projects opening back to back, ending the longest dry spell of his 31-year career.
Tideland, to be released next month at the Toronto international film festival, is about a little girl who takes refuge from her drug-addicted father in a world of imaginary companions, while The Brothers Grimm, which opens in the US next week, stars Matt Damon and Heath Ledger as the German philologists and kings of the fairytale.
Grimm has been on hold for more than a year because of a dispute between Gilliam and Bob Weinstein, head of Dimension Films. The two went head-to-head over the final shape of the work, which at that point had been finished for months.
"He just had a different view of the film" Gilliam told the New York Times. The film was finished after Gilliam took a six-month hiatus to make Tideland and the dispute was resolved.
"I actually think we made it better without succumbing to other people's idea about what would make it better," Gilliam told the Times, adding "Everybody's happy now. We're a big happy family."
