The British actor, Westley in the 1987 family favourite film, has written the definitive chronicle of the making of The Princess Bride: how a novel and screenplay, loved for years but considered ...

As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride; by Cary Elwes. From the Pits of Insanity to the Cliffs of Despair, the 1987 film The Princess Bride became a kind of comedy cult ...

The actor will offer personal accounts and behind-the-scenes stories about the film, which was directed by the late Rob ...

Actor Cary Elwes rose to fame when he was chosen by director Rob Reiner to appear as the romantic lead Westley in The Princess Bride. Although the movie wasn’t a huge hit at the box office when it ...

Nearly 30 years of its debut, 'The Princess Bride' remains a cult classic. Actor Cary Elwes discusses his memoir about the making of the iconic film on the News Hub. Photo: 20th Century Fox.

The Princess Bride, which turned 30 this year, was a fairytale movie that was not only sweet, but also smart. With scene-stealers like Billy Crystal as Miracle Max and André the Giant as Fezzik, the ...

Cary Elwes and Fred Savage, who also starred in the 1987 swashbuckling comedy, paid tribute to Reiner on social media.

Nearly 20 years after its release, The Princess Bride escaped its initial fate as "another Wizard of Oz (meaning, originally, no one saw it, the studio had no idea how to market it and it flopped, ...

Reiner came to learn that the project had been shopped around to several studios years earlier, all of whom passed. So The Princess Bride was on hold, and Reiner wound up making his next movie, Stand ...

Based on the 1973 fantasy novel by William Goldman, The Princess Bride is a warmly staged swashbuckling adventure, replete ...

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