The opening chapter for Buttercup’s Baby felt much darker than anything I had read previously. The world was more dangerous and less optimistic. That would be worthwhile in itself.

Using the aesthetic of Blade Runner and the Geiger from the Alien series for a remake and / or sequel would be amazing. Add some cleavage and/or bouncing breasteses and I’m sure Roger Ebert would endorse.

(BTW – I have a high opinion of Mr. Ebert and his late friend, Russ Meyer. Also, I am not at all completely offering this idea in jest – I’d really like to see it. I first thought about it fifteen years ago give or take.)

Unlike Hey Hey in the Hayloft, Ants In Your Plants of 1939, or Ontario Bound Without A Timepiece.

When I heard they were making a movie I was worried, but not TOO worried since Goldman had written the screenplay too.  About the only shortcoming I saw was that the book had much deeper backstories for the kidnappers.  Obviously, all of Goldman’s elaborate literary framing devices wouldn’t work onscreen (but handily replaced by the Fred Savage/Robert Falk premise).

Don’t laugh, but I love “The Last Unicorn” for a lot of the same reasons: great play on old myths/legends/stories with eminently quotable dialogue.

Focuses on Westley/Buttercup’s daughter on the journey that leads to her becoming the new Dread Pirate Roberts (taking over either from Inigo, or, perhaps, the man who replaced him and became something of a stooge, selling out to one of the local governments, and Inigo coming along to help her take back the role).  As it starts off she either runs away or in danger, allowing a subplot of her parents trying desperately to rescue/catch up with her and always being just a little bit behind.

And of course, Fred Savage telling the story to his kids, but perhaps coming up with it himself after they keep asking him for what happened AFTER The Princess Bride, and he struggles to gives them a story to answer is… a metatextual way to apologize for it being somewhat ‘inferior’ to the original, classic work.

A bit obvious, perhaps, but it’s what I’d do.

tied with OBWAT

OBWAT?  I confess myself stumped.

Our Baby Was A Titanosaur?

On Bankok’s Waterfront At Teatime?

Think it’ll work? 

Maybe their kid could have a story, but not Buttercup and Wesley.

“…won’t have Andre the Giant, Peter Cook, or Peter Falk in it”

CGI synthespians!

But did you know that Goldman wrote a decades-later sequel to Marathon Man, a novel called Brothers?  In it, he waves his hands and undoes a pretty significant plot point in Marathon Man, and proceeds to sucker-punch anybody who cared about the characters in the original.

I’d be perfectly content with Mr. Goldman being afflicted with writer’s bock in regard to the Princess Bride sequel for the rest of his natural life.

Princess Bride was the go-to birthday party treat for my daughters; over the years we must have seen it a dozen times or more…I was always so charmed; the evident enjoyment the actors were having working together is what has stayed with me since then…I just smile every time I see a reference to it.