Internetarchivebookdrive Edition 30th anniversary ed., 1st trade pbk. (A Florinese lawyer named Kermit Shog is involved-you know you want this in your inbox.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:59:53.565935 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA1139114 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid S0022 Donor Instead, you'll get a delightfully nutty automated response from Goldman, detailing the fictitious legal troubles surrounding the missing scene. You can request a missing scene from The Princess Bride. 'I wrote a movie called Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and I wrote a novel called The Princess Bride and those are the only two things I've ever written, not that I'm proud of, but that I can look at without humiliation.'ħ. Goldman was able to look back at the book 'without humiliation.' (Plus, we just really, really want to know what a Princess Bride tale as written by King would look like.)Ħ. Unfortunately, King shot it down as a silly joke between friends on his website-but we're not so easily fooled. Goldman included this juicy tidbit in later editions of The Princess Bride. If Princess Bride ever got a sequel, it would be called Buttercup's Baby and Stephen King would write it.

The countries are named after old coins.įlorin, where Prince Humperdinck reigns, is the name of an Italian gold coin once minted in Florence and Guilder, the neighboring country Humperdinck was (spoiler alert?) going to murder Buttercup to start a war with, is the name of a Dutch gold coin.ĥ. And then, during the scripted scene when Buttercup's dress catches on fire, Goldman panicked and screamed, 'Oh my god! Her dress is on fire!'Ĥ. On the first day of filming, he ruined the first few takes with a barely audible prayer chant. Goldman experienced an embarrassing moment of panic on the set of the film adaptation.īecause he wrote the book and the screenplay for The Princess Bride, you might think Goldman would know what to expect on set. The literary device let Goldman gleefully write only the 'good parts' of his own story.ģ. He presented his book as an abridged version of the 'original' (i.e. Or at least that's what Goldman would like you to think. The Princess Bride is as an abridged version of a book that does not exist. What do you want it to be about?' One said 'a princess' and the other said 'a bride.'Ģ. Goldman's daughters gave him the title for the book.īefore Goldman began writing The Princess Bride, he told his two young daughters, 'I'll write you a story.

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