The Adventures of Baron Munchausen got fired, and all these deals were oral deals. ... Columbia's new CEO, Dawn Steel, said 'Whatever David Puttnam "[has]" said before doesn't interest me'". Regarding the new regime's apparent animosity towards all of Puttnam's projects and "Munchausen", Gilliam added in the same documentary, "I was trying very hard to convince Dawn Steel that this was not a David Puttnam movie, it was a Terry Gilliam movie." Similarly Kent Houston, head of Peerless Camera doing the film's special effects said in "Madness and Misadventures" that they were promised a bonus if they would finish the effects in time, but when
Baron Munchausen for the book, combined animation with live-action actors, including Miloš Kopecký as the Baron. In the Soviet Union in 1929 by Daniil Cherkes was released cartoon "Adventures of Munchausen". In the Soviet Union, Soyuzmultfilm released a 16-minute stop-motion animation "Adventures of Baron Munchausen" in 1967, directed by Anatoly Karanovich. Another Soviet animated version was produced as a series of short films, "Munchausen's Adventures", in 1973 and 1974. The French animator Jean Image filmed "The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen" in 1979, and followed it with a 1984 sequel, "Moon Madness". Oleg Yankovsky appeared as the Baron in the