Director Terry Gilliam’s biggest hits happened in the ’90s, but that seemed far from certain at the decade’s outset. Long revered for his work in the British Monty Python comedy troupe, and later for directing ambitious ’80s movies such as Brazil, Gilliam had just come off his 1988 box office bomb The Adventures of Baron Munchausen before his big 1991 comeback. His Python goodwill seemed all but depleted at the time, which was saying something, considering its cache was enough to attract Robert De Niro, Sean Connery, and Robin Williams to his ’80s movies, Gilliam tells Under the Radar.
left him feeling like all his ’90s film dreams had been dashed— from bad accounting that busted and winning, there were people waiting to see me fall.”
