Amazon Makes Deals With Jim Jarmusch And Terry Gilliam

By Russ Fischer/May 13, 2015 4:30 pm EST

If you want to know how this happened, one name is likely the key: Ted Hope. The indie producer got his start doing New York indies such as the early films of Hal Hartley, has seen several films go on to Oscar gold, and has won more Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prizes than anyone else.

Ted Hope does not have any produced work with Jim Jarmusch or Terry Gilliam, but he d0es acknowledge Jarmusch as part of the lure that brought him to indie film.

Now Hope has a slate to fill and money to spend — is it any surprise that he would turn to people who’ve long been part of the film landscape he admired? (And in the case of Gilliam, if Hope has a slate to fill and money to spend, that would be the solution to one of the biggest problems that has plagued Gilliam throughout his career.)