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The Princess Bride Re-Make: Make it More Than Mostly Dead
Destroy everything about this except it’s ears. It’s ears it keeps, and I’ll tell you why…
No. Hell No.
In fact, destroy everything about this except it’s ears. It’s ears it keeps, and I’ll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, “Dear God, what is that thing?” will echo in it’s perfect ears…left in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever.
But it’s Hollywood, and they are out of ideas, so instead we get this heresy:
“We have so many people coming to us saying, ‘We want to remake this show or that show,’” (Sony pictures CEO) Vinciquerra says. “Very famous people whose names I won’t use, but they want to redo ‘The Princess Bride.’ Some people want to do animated versions of some of the sitcoms. Not a month goes by when we don’t have an idea coming from some very big name wanting to do things with Norman.”
Respectfully, those very famous people can go right to hell.
At some point, the madness of ruining every decent film from our childhoods must be stopped.
