> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.killscreen.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# The trailer for Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem reminds us why we love virtual worlds
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/trailer-terry-gilliams-zero-theorem-reminds-us-why-we-love-games/
- Published: 2014-01-30T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:25:02.000Z
- Description: The trailer for Terry Gilliam’s upcoming film The Zero Theorem has dropped and looks like a Terry Gilliam film, which is to say that it involves an eccentric, disconnected, but also genius main character. This time it’s a mad computer programmer who refers to himself as “we” and lusts over a woman i
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, Film, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

The trailer for Terry Gilliam’s upcoming film *The Zero Theorem* has dropped and looks like a Terry Gilliam film, which is to say that it involves an eccentric, disconnected, but also genius main character. This time it’s a mad computer programmer who refers to himself as “we” and lusts over a woman in a nurse outfit as he uncovers the meaning of existence. It’s a fool’s errand to read too much into a filmmaker’s filmography, but Gilliam’s films almost exclusively revolve around the idea of alternate realities, an idea that isn’t a strange one to games.

Look at the proof: *Brazil* was a bright happy hero fantasy staged against the grim reality of dystopia; *Fear and Loathing* involved the use of dangerous drugs to escape the disappointment of the post-hippy era; his superb *The Adventures of Baron Munchausen* accounted for an aging folk hero who could slip into the recesses of memory and become heroic again; you could say the same about Gilliam’s his failed attempt to shoot *Don Quixote*; then there’s *The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus*; and *Time Bandits*. Oh, *Time Bandits*!

Why the hell hasn’t someone made a Terry Gilliam game? Maybe we should get [the *Jazzpunk* guys](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/articles/feature/we-talk-creators-upcoming-jazzpunk-about-reinventing-comedy-game/?ref=killscreen.com) on it. I bet they could kill *Time Bandits.*