Sarah Polley on ‘Baron Munchausen’ Criterion Release: ‘You Have My Permission to Still Love This Movie’
Polley, who starred in the film as a child, recently spoke out about director Terry Gilliam’s lack of concern for her safety on set.
Polley, who starred in the film as a child, recently spoke out about director Terry Gilliam’s lack of concern for her safety on set.
“It didn’t seem possible that this could have been the plan, that things hadn’t just gone terribly wrong,” Polley wrote. “But they hadn’t. This was the plan.”
Gilliam admits he thought Bruce Willis’ mouth looked too much like “somebody’s asshole.”
The now-octogenarian’s one wish for a very happy pandemic birthday? A dose of psilocybin mushrooms.
In an interview as part of the Ventotene Film Festival, Gilliam said he had a cast and script ready to go just as the pandemic hit.
According to the director of “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” the white male voice is simply being silenced these days.
In a recent IndieWire interview, Gilliam said he prefers Scorsese’s human side over his spiritual side, and criticized the film’s de-aging technique.
Gilliam talks his long-suffering Cervantes epic, why he hated “Black Panther,” and how Marvel tells us “we all need to be superheroes to do anything worthwhile.”
DOC NYC: This sequel to 2002’s “Lost in La Mancha” is an insightful snapshot of Gilliam’s ongoing attempts to finish his beleaguered passion project.
“It was like a member of the family had died,” he said of Ledger’s death.
“They can’t afford lawyers, clearly,” the filmmaker joked.
Waititi will direct and co-write the pilot episode of the Gilliam-produced series.