Overview

• Speaking as honorary president of Italy’s Umbria Film Festival, Gilliam announced he is rewriting his screenplay after concluding its original satire no longer applies under Trump’s second term.
• The director blamed President Trump for “fucking up” the film’s premise and declared that his presidency has “killed” the project he planned to shoot this spring.
• He has scrapped the movie’s initial subtitle and is considering a new preamble framing the story as set during the “Trump lost years” from 2020 to 2024.
• The Carnival at the End of Days, which had assembled stars Johnny Depp as Satan, Jeff Bridges as God and Adam Driver, is on hold until Gilliam completes his revamped vision.
• Gilliam also criticized “woke activists” for narrowing comedic freedom but singled out Trump’s presidency as the defining disruption to modern satire.