'Princess Bride' Returns to Theaters

Unless you've spent the past 30 years unemployed in Greenland, you've probably fallen in love with The Princess Bride somewhere along the way. The 1987 comedy is not only beloved by just about everyone, it's one of a handful of film that is so exquisitely quotable that its biggest fans can recite nearly the entire script verbatim. In October, in honor of the film's 30th anniversary, TCM Big Screen Classics will bring the movie back to theaters for a two-day engagement. Read on for details.

Via Forbes.

Thirty years after its release, The Princess Bride is returning to movie theaters for two days only.

The endlessly quotable adventure romance-fantasy-comedy was made for $16 million and grossed a decent $30.86 million, unadjusted for inflation. It will add to that ticket sales tally on Sunday, October 15, and Wednesday, October 18 when it gets a limited rerelease as part of the TCM Big Screen Classics series from Fathom Events and Turner Classic Movies.

The screenings in 700 theaters will include a short film by the film’s director, Rob Reiner, who will discuss The Princess Bride and its legacy.

The 1987 movie wasn’t the first attempt to turn the novel into a film. In 1973, 20th Century Fox paid Goldman $500,000 for the film rights and to do a screenplay with Richard Lester signed to direct but it didn’t materialize.

Over the following decade, it was almost financed several times over the next decade with, at one time, Superman’s Christopher Reeve being interested in playing Westley. However, it was a few years later that Rob Reiner managed to secure funding from Norman Lear and it finally hit theaters. Although only a modest success at the box office, thanks to home video, it found a far wider audience and is now considered to something of a classic.

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