When you organize a casting call for a giant, you don’t get a lot of callbacks and Andre the Giant was really it. I think Richard Kiel did, God bless him, but according to Rob, there was really only one person who could play the role.
There are also interesting bits about who was in the running for Fezzik-that when Norman Jewison had the film set up years prior, a then-unknown Arnold Schwarzenegger was attached, and that Richard Kiel was also strongly considered for the part. I finished a picture a few years earlier with Colin called Another Country, and he’s an old friend of mine whom I love dearly. One thing the book revealed, which I hadn’t heard before, was that your onetime co-star Colin Firth was considered for the role of Westley. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Elwes discussed his favorites. He had some help, too-the entire cast and crew of The Princess Bride contributed cherished memories to the tome.
“We were all asked that night what our individual recollections were of making the film, and there wasn’t really enough time for me to adequately share my experience with the fans, so I thought this would be a good way to do it,” says Elwes. Elwes was inspired to write the book following a special 25th anniversary screening of the film at the New York Film Festival, which was rapturously received. 14, offers a thrilling, behind-the-scenes look at the production’s highs and lows, from would-be castings to various hijinks. It’s this last quote, As You Wish, which serves as the title of an upcoming tome penned by Elwes (with help from Joe Layden) about the making of the unlikeliest of cinema classics, The Princess Bride. Prepare to die.” “Anybody want a peanut?” “As you wish.” The film’s screenplay, courtesy of the great William Goldman-who took home a pair of Oscars for penning Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President’s Men-is endlessly quotable: “Inconceivable!” “Hello, My name is Inigo Montoya. Reiner’s film, released in 1987, boasted a wildly diverse cast including the up-and-coming Brit Elwes as The Man In Black, newcomer Robin Wright as Princess Buttercup, a scenery-chewing Mandy Patinkin as the vengeance-seeking Spaniard Inigo Montoya, wrestler Andre the Giant and thespian Wallace Shawn as henchmen Fezzik and Vizzini, Chris Sarandon as the scheming Prince Humperdinck, Christopher Guest playing against type as the evil Six-Fingered Man, Billy Crystal and Carol Kane as Miracle Max and Valerie, as well as Peter Falk and Fred Savage as the grandfather/narrator and his grandson, respectively. Elwes, of course, portrayed the iconic, Zorro-like hero Westley in the Rob Reiner epic-a swashbuckling fantasy/adventure/romance replete with a giant, a six-fingered man, Rodents of Unusual Size, the Cliffs of Insanity, the list goes on. “It really was like a traveling circus,” Cary Elwes says of filming one of the most beloved movies in the history of cinema, The Princess Bride.
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