[Movie Script]Princess Bride, The

"The Princess Bride"
by
William Goldman
1987-Shooting Draft

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FADE IN ON:



A VIDEO GAME ON A COMPUTER SCREEN



The game is in progress. As a sick coughing sound is heard.
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THIS KID



lying in bed, coughing. Pale, one sick cookie. Maybe he's

seven or eight or nine. He holds a remote in one hand,

presses it, and the video game moves a little bit. Then he's

hit by another spasm of coughing, puts the remote down.
His room is monochromatic, greys and blues, mildly high-tech.

We're in the present day and this is a middle class house,

somewhere in the suburbs.
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