The Princess Bride

The Princess Bride (1987)

Timing: 1:39 (99 min)

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Photo 135

Actors and characters

Release date

1987-09-25

Country

United States

Production

Act III Productions, The Princess Bride Ltd., Buttercup Films Ltd.

Genre

Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Comedy, Romance

Budget

$16 000 000

Revenue

$30 900 000

Website

http://princessbrideforever.com/

Director

Rob Reiner

Actors

Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, André Roussimoff, Fred Savage, Peter Falk, Peter Cook
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Scenario

Producer

Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, Norman Lear

Operator

Adrian Biddle

Composer

Mark Knopfler

Artist

Audition

Janet Hirshenson, Jane Jenkins

Editing

Robert Leighton
All team (39)

• The film is based on William Goldman's novel «The Princess Bride» (1973).
• In 1973, William Goldman, a successful Hollywood screenwriter (two «Oscars» for the screenplays of classic films «Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid» and «All the President's Men»), decided to publish a fairy tale he told to his two daughters as a separate book. To his surprise, it proved much more popular than his «adult» thrillers, on which Goldman had hoped to build a literary career. Almost immediately, «The Princess Bride» became a national bestseller, and the author was offered $500,000 for the screenplay rights.
• Richard Lester was supposed to direct – he gained fame in the 1960s as the director of the Beatles films «A Hard Day's Night» and «Help!», and later directed the second and third Superman films. But suddenly, the management at Fox changed, and the adaptation got stuck in «development hell» for a long time. Despairing of waiting, Goldman bought back the rights to his book with his own money.
• Robert Redford almost filmed the adaptation, nearly assembling a cast (Colin Firth as Westley, Sting as Prince Humperdinck, Arnold Schwarzenegger as the giant Fezzik), but filming never began: Redford couldn't raise enough of a budget.
• Christopher Reeve (Superman) was interested in the role of Wesley.
• André the Giant – a man of the kindest soul, according to his colleagues on set – was French and spoke very little English, so the director recorded his lines on tape so that André could learn them by ear. In life, he turned out to be not at all the strongman he was as Fezzik. He suffered from constant pain – his joints and bones could no longer cope with his wrestling weight of 240 kg. The actor fought pain with alcohol and could not carry a lot of people on his back. Therefore, the scene in which Wesley (as the Man in Black) is hanging on Fezzik’s neck was shot in close-up – in fact, Cary Elwes rested his feet on a solid surface.
• The film is based on William Goldman's novel "The Princess Bride" (1973).
• In 1973, William Goldman, a successful Hollywood screenwriter (two "Oscars" for the screenplays of the classic films "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "All the President's Men"), decided to publish a fairy tale he had been telling to his two daughters as a separate book. To his surprise, it proved far more popular than the "adult" thrillers on which Goldman had hoped to build a literary career. "The Princess Bride" immediately became a national bestseller, and the author was offered $500,000 for the screenplay rights.
• Richard Lester was to direct – he gained fame in the 1960s as the director of the Beatles films "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!", and later directed the second and third Superman films. But suddenly, the leadership at Fox changed, and the adaptation became stuck in "development hell" for a long time. Desperate to wait no longer, Goldman bought back the rights to his book with his own money.