


Then we confront a skinless-faced madman attacking the family, and Fezzik, the baby's self-appointed guardian, flings himself off a mountain to save Waverly. We learn more of Inigo's youth, his training, and a long-ago love. Our heroes escape to hard-to-reach One Tree Island, where titular child Waverly makes her appearance. In "Buttercup's Baby," Humperdinck recoups enough of his manhood to mount a pursuit.

It'll leave you hungry.Īs you'll recall, The Dread Pirate Westley humiliated Humperdinck - to the pain - but made a rookie mistake, leaving the vindictive prince alive. Or little: In anniversary editions of the 1973 novel, source for the 1987 movie, for which Goldman also wrote the screenplay, an epilogue titled "Buttercup's Baby" showed some of what happened to the quartet of Inigo, Westley, Buttercup and Fezzik after they raced on horseback away from Prince Humperdinck's castle.īe warned: It's a chapter, not a complete tale. William Goldman struggled for years to create a sequel to his most-beloved - by him and the public - work "The Princess Bride," to no avail.
