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
Munchausen (short film) chasing his car. The film closes on a shot of the mother's garden, now withered and dead, with the superhero figure in the center. After making "The Strange Thing About The Johnsons" and "Beau" in 2011, writer-director Aster and producer De Leon were inspired by the films of Disney-Pixar, especially the poignant opening montage of "Up". The duo re-teamed with cinematographer Pawel Pogorzelski to make "Munchausen", and started a successful crowdfunding campaign for the film in 2012, which raised $16,175. The film is named for the phenomenon of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, "a behavior pattern in which a caregiver deliberately