Adventures of Baron Munchhausen: The Screenplay

The adventures of Baron Munchausen, one of the most famous liars in history, were first set down in print over two hundred years ago and since then they have beenretold and added to by storytellers around the world to the delight of frivolous adults and serious children everywhere.This book tells the story of Terry Gilliam and Charles McKeown's exciting and hilarious new screenplay, which shows a company of actors in a beseiged town headed by Henry Salt Esq., the internationally famous actor manager and abetted by his daughter Sally. The play they perform retells the story of BaronMunchausen, but it is interrupted by an aged and outraged member of the audience who claims to be the Baron himself.Only nine-year-old Sally will believe that he really is the Baron and so begins an exciting and enthralling series of adventures for them both, which starts with a daredevil wager against a murderous sultan and takes them to the moon and beyond.True to the tradition of Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits, this story of the film offers a delightfully colourful adventure in time and space, a truly Munchausenesqueextravaganza.