Now I know what is going to happen-there is a flame spurt and her dress catches on fire. And there is a moment in the movie where Cary Elwes (Westley) starts to lead Robin Wright (Buttercup) through it. I hide on the sets out of the way when the camera rolls, but I cannot tell you how often the director, just as he is about to start, sees where I am and asks me to please move, because I am standing in the exact spot where the shot will end.Ī few days before the day I am about to tell you about, we were shooting the Fire Swamp. I make the actors nervous, but more than that, and if I have written this before, skip this part, I have an amazing ability to screw up shots. You won't believe that, I know), and (2) if you are the writer, essentially, your work is done. They are tedious and horrible for several reasons: (1) they are tedious and horrible (but I once wrote that the best day of your life is your first day on a set and the worst days are all the ones that follow. I ordinarily do not not not like being on movie sets. I had written the screenplay for it first over a decade before-but it had never been "picked up," as they say Out There, till then. It was such a happy time for me, at last Morgenstern coming to life on film. L ET ME TELL you how I first heard of the existence of the Morgenstern Museum.īack we go to 1986, Sheffield, England, and we are shooting the movie of The Princess Bride.
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