The Adventures of Baron Munchausen The Adventures of Baron Munchausen The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 adventure fantasy film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, and Uma Thurman. The film is based on the tall tales about the 18th-century German nobleman Baron Munchausen and his wartime exploits against the Ottoman Empire. The film was a box office bomb, grossing just $8 million against its $46 million budget and losing the studio $38 million. However, it received positive reviews from critics and was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Art Direction, Best Costume
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote or not. Pecorini stated at the time "Never in 22 years of being in this business have I seen such a sum of bad luck." Gilliam was very disappointed by this, as he had spent two years trying to cast the perfect actor for Quixote. Despite his continued efforts, production was finally cancelled in November 2000. After his 1988 film "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" was almost abandoned, Gilliam decided to document the making of all his films in case one of them was canceled. For "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote", he asked Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, who