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 longer widely read by English speakers, the Munchausen stories remain popular in Europe, especially in Germany and in Russia. As well as the many augmented and adapted editions of Raspe's text, the fictional Baron has occasionally appeared in other standalone works. In 1838–39, Karl Leberecht Immermann published the long novel "Münchhausen: Eine Geschichte in Arabesken" ("Münchhausen: A History of Arabesques") as an homage to the character, and Adolf Ellissen's "Munchausens Lügenabenteur", an elaborate expansion of the stories, appeared in 1846. In his 1886 philosophical treatise "Beyond Good and Evil", Friedrich Nietzsche uses one of the Baron's adventures, the one in