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A Princess Bride reboot? Inconceivable.
According to Cary Elwes, that is. The actor, who played Westley successful the cult 1987 phantasy film, recently dismissed the possibility, telling E! News, "There's nary reboot."
The 60-year-old recalled, "There was a workplace caput 1 clip who suggested that and helium posted it connected Twitter and I responded, 'There's a shortage of cleanable movies successful this world. It would beryllium a pity to harm this one.'"
Elwes' 2019 tweet was successful effect to station from Variety successful which Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Tony Vinciquerra had the outlet, "Very celebrated radical whose names I won't use, but they privation to redo The Princess Bride."
The Stranger Things alum—who stars successful the upcoming movie Sweetwater (out April 14), )—noted that his remark paraphrasing 1 of The Princess Bride's celebrated quotes "got rather a sizeable effect of affirmative feedback."
So erstwhile it comes to the archetypal movie, Elwes added, "I don't deliberation you tin interaction it."
And he is not the lone formed subordinate who feels this way. Robin Wright, who played main quality Princess Buttercup, previously shared her absorption to a imaginable remake, noting to E! News successful 2017, "We thought, 'Don't ruin it. Please don't ruin it.'"
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But while a new Princess Bride cast won't beryllium having amusive storming immoderate castles unneurotic anytime soon, Elwes, Wright and galore of their erstwhile co-stars, including Mandy Patinkin and Billy Crystal—have kept successful interaction successful the decades since the film's release.
There’s a shortage of cleanable movies successful this world. It would beryllium a pity to harm this one. https://t.co/5N8Q3P2e5G
— Cary Elwes (@Cary_Elwes) September 18, 2019"We bash get unneurotic and we bash observe each other," Elwes told E! News. "We're each 1 large household present acknowledgment to this fantastic film."
And the histrion is looking guardant to getting unneurotic with his erstwhile co-stars again—including erstwhile The Princess Bride reaches a caller large milestone successful a fewer years. "I deliberation if we bash immoderate benignant of celebrations, we astir apt person to hold till the 40th anniversary," helium said. "So we person a fewer years away."
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