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."

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I never saw this one coming...

[Anti-Trend]

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

Re:You can't be serious!?

[Engineer Andy]

It is a good date dvd / play, and slashdotters need (from all accounts) all the help they can get on that front.

OK I have to Admit it

[adamy]

The reason I found this news article was because I was looking to see if anyone was making a musical version of it because I have been writing one. Honestly. I have the vast majority of the Lyrics written, and a bunch of songs. That being said, I am still thrilled. I really want to see this.

By the way, if you guys are going to qutoe the movie, you have to come up with some of the better, more obscure quotes:

It's not my fault being the biggest and the Strongest. I don't even exercize.

Get some rest, if you haven't got your health, you haven't go anything.

I have no Gate Key
Fezzik, tear his arms off.
Oh, you mean this gate key?

(You have to listen close for this one)
I am waiting for Vizzini
You really are a meany.
Fezzik its you!
That's true.

And now for a breakdown...

[Leontes]

This is News for Nerds, News for Dorks would be highlighting the film adaptation of DOOM or some type of other silliness. You are mistaking this site as a news for geeks, which would mean only technical news stories.

So to review:

Dorks: Care about crap as if it were good.

Geeks: Care about goods, passing on the creative shit.

Nerds: care about the good shit, even if it makes them look like crap.

Clear that up for you?

Did you read th

[Goonie]

Well, actually, he only *abridged* the book. The original, unabridged story was by Morgenstern. Didn't you read the forward? ;)

I owe my MARRIAGE to The Princess Bride

[blakespot]

Long story short I met my wife in a fairly chance encounter when going to have a beer with a friend of a friend (and her roommate) at a bar in Williamsburg, VA where I lived. I was most taken by her roommate, and she seemed rather to be enjyoing my company as the evening began. However, the roommate had been broken up with less than 12 hours before our meeting. The last thing on her mind was getting into a new relationship.

So the conversation turned to "favorite movies." I mentioned that The Princss Bride was mine. She was amazed and admitted it was hers, as well. I then revealed that I had read and enjoyed the book and she confessed to the same. I then took it even farther by pointing out that I sent in a letter to the publisher asking to receive the "missing" Reunion Scene, which I did receive a few weeks later. She did the same thing! So what was mild interest at first on her part, was now in her mind a situation with a flashing "Hey This Might Be Fate" light attached.

Two months later I quit my job and moved to Charlottesville, VA where she was attending law school. Four months after that, we were engaged. We just had our seventh wedding anniversary and have been together almost nine years now.

I guess I was her Man In Black. :-)

(And it is nicer than an M.L.T.)

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