Goldman addresses the reader and says that he wishes he'd written
The Princess Bride. He has to content himself with the fact that his abridgement, while skewered by Florinese scholars, brought the great
Morgenstern to an American audience. The movie is the reason Goldman is writing the introduction for this version. He begins by offering memories of getting
The Princess Bride turned into a movie. Goldman says that he took time away from writing
The Stepford Wives to abridge
The Princess Bride, and the “Greenlight Guy” at Fox liked it. He says that this is the person who has the power to make a movie go or not, and the guy at Fox thought
The Princess Bride was great book but maybe wasn't a movie. They worked out a deal to not buy the screenplay unless they decided to actually make it.