The Princess Bride Musical

adamy writes "Maybe a good thing, maybe a bad thing. William Goldman has started collaborating on a musical version of the time-honored classic. Guess the only thing left to do now is go through the pockets and look for loose change."

Comments

Am I on the right site?

[Slashdiddly]

I'm not sure

Re:Am I on the right site?

[The Wooden Badger]

You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Re:Am I on the right site?

[Anonymous Coward]

He's referring to his low sperm count. Good thing, too. We've already got enough Anonymous Cowards around here.

Re:Am I on the right site?

[The Wooden Badger]

Now that was funny. Nicely done. I'll look for more posts from you in the...Oh crap!

Re:Am I on the right site?

[Anonymous Coward]

If your RTFA, you would realise the actors will be patented robots (made from recycled Ipods) running open source embeded operating software stolen from SCO. It will also be released on Blue Ray or HDDVD depending on vendor support.

Re:Am I on the right site?

[Pogue Mahone]

Sorry, I thought it was a SCO story. The Princess McBride ...

Re:Am I on the right site?

[str3ssh3d]

Stories of unusual content?

I don't believe they exist!

Re:Am I on the right site?

[Salgak1]

Well, he COULD be considered a Rodent of Unusual Size. . .

Re:Am I on the right site?

[focitrixilous P]

Boo. Boo. Boo. You had humor within your hands, and you gave it up. Your true sense of humor lives. And you marry another. Humor saved Slashdiddly in the Fire Swamp, and he treated it like garbage. And that's what he is, the King of Refuse. So bow down to him if you want, bow to him. Bow to the King of Slime, the King of Filth, the King of Putrescence. Boo. Boo. Rubbish. Filth. Slime. Muck. Boo. Boo. Boo.

Re:You can't be serious!?

[Anonymous Coward]

You can't be serious!? I thought the Slashdot management was turning this into a Microsoft forum, but now I'm not so sure. Can anyone explain what the connection is between the "Princess Bride," and something a typical Slashdot reader would be interested in?

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Re:Hello

[EEBaum]

Stop saying that!

ACs

[darrell73]

My name is Anonymous Coward.
You killed my post.
Prepare to die.

Re:ACs

[aussie_a]

Stop saying that!!

Lord of the Princess Rings of the Bride

[matt_tucents]

Funny this comes up. My attention was draw to this earlier this evening. Talk about adaptations... :>

Re:Why?

[aussie_a]

Nothing new. Nada. Oh, except maybe Serenity........

Good god! You're right man. Because nothing says originality like a movie set in the same universe as a television show.

Re:Why are you smiling?

[megalogeek]

Because I am not left handed either.

Scandal!

[Anonymous Coward]

Any truly learned man would know that this William Goldman character is plagurizing the work of the real literary genius, S. Morgenstern.

Re:Hello

[palndrumm]

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You spelled my name wrong. Prepare to die.

Re:You can't be serious!?

[Anonymous Coward]

Can anyone explain what the connection is between the "Princess Bride," and something a typical Slashdot reader would be interested in?

My name is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 my parent process. Prepare to vi.

Aren't fantasy & RPGs nerd territory too?

[Mistshadow2k4]

I played D&D and read fantasy fiction long before computers were common and I was considered a nerd for that. Has that changed? Why doesn't anybody tell me these things?

Re:Hello

[zakezuke]

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You spelled my name wrong. Prepare to die.

Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 my parent process, prepare to vi.

The Princess Bride as musical

[Big Nothing]

The Princess Bride as musical?!? INCONCEIVABLE!

Re:Article relevance to slashdot...... ZERO

[lahvak]

Killed by pirates is good.

Re:Pretty girl?

[drsquare]

The generic Slashdot reader is not poor or unlucky, nor hard-working or cleverly inventive.

The generic Slashdot reader is a rich computer programmer with a very easy life, who coasts all day sat at a computer reading Slashdot, and writes posts which regurgitate things he's read a million times before.

Re:OK I have to Admit it

[troc]

No more rhymes now, I mean it.

Re:Article relevance to slashdot...... ZERO

[themusicgod1]

slashdot core -> science -> geology -> quicksand -> lightning sand -> princess bride.

Or possibly

slashdot -> technology -> dvd -> use of dvds -> specific use of dvd's -> princess bride on DVD.

See, there is some relevance, but it's almost practically elipson.

Of course the real diagram for me is as follows

slashdot core -> science -> geology -> quicksand -> lightning sand -> princess bride -> sydney -> my dismal failure at finding a girlfriend -> slashdot :)

Re:Incontheivable!!

[coopaq]

Perhaps they are not aware that I am, in fact, left handed?

Yeah but you were right handed before the internet came online.

Re:OK I have to Admit it

[Mark Hood]

Anybody want a peanut?

Re:Pot, meet kettle.

[Subrafta]

However, slashdot does need a "Culture" section for these kinds of articles(ie, Serenity, the Raiders of the Lost Ark remake, Spamalot, etc...)

Demented and sad, but social.

It was bound to happen

[SalesEngineer]

After all, the movie has already produced this infomercial

Re:Why?

[Anomylous Howard]

I can't wait to see Nothing New: Nada .
I hope it's even half as good as Nothing New: Zilch and Nothing New: The Return of /dev/null .

Re:Hello

[Anonymous Coward]

My name is Indigo Montoya...prepare to dye

I can see it now!

[PsiPsiStar]

(to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody)

It's inconceivable.
You don't know what that means.
Scaling a mountain
Disrespectful to gravity
Say your goodbyes

The ropes gone but still there's me.
I'm just a pirate. I need no sympathy.
Because I'm ambidexterious
You are two I guess.

Any cup that you choose doesn't really matter... to me. ...to me

Mama,killed the Sicillian
Put some poison in both cups
That loud bastard bottomed up,
Mama,the chase has just begun
But Buttercup has thrown me down a cliff
Mama ooo,
Didn't mean to make you cry-
But now we've gotta run through the fireswamp.
Look a big, giant rat.

(cut foward in the song)

She's a cute princess everybody loves her.
She's just a poor girl from a poor family. Spare her her life with this man Humperdink.
let me go. I'll kill myself. Stab myself to death.-
Bismillah! no-,we will not let you go-let me go-
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let me go
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go let me go
No,no,no,no,no,no,no-
Mama mia,mama mia,mama mia let me go-
But Humperdink has a dagger set aside for you... for you.... for you...

Re:I never saw this one coming...

[Hatta]

That being said, there are even more questionable musical adaptations out there.

Yeah, like the Betty Ford clinic musical:

Criminal: I'm checking in.
          All: He's checking in.
Criminal: I'm checking in,
          All: Checking Checking In,
Criminal: No more pills or alcohol,
                    No more pot or Demerol,
                    No more stinking fun at all,
                    I'm checking in.
          All: He's checking in, He's checking in.
    Doctor: No more looking pale and thin,
                    No more bugs beneath your skin.
Criminal: Hey, that's just my aspirin.
          All: Check it out, you're checking in!

Or even better, the musical adaptation of Planet of the Apes:

Troy: I hate every ape I see,
          From chimpan-A to chimpanzee,
          No, you'll never make a monkey out of me!

(Statue of Liberty rises)

          O my! I was wrong!
          It was Earth, all along!
          You've finally made a monkey,

Apes: Yes we've finally made a monkey,

Troy: Yes you've

& Apes: finally made a monkey out of me!

Troy: I love you, Dr. Zaius!

And remember...

[tuxguy_ga]

Have fun storming the castle!