Sox Win Throws Curve to Barrymore Movie

[Champ]

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Boston Red Sox's historic World Series (news - web sites) baseball win Wednesday has forced a rewrite of a sports-based romantic comedy starring Drew Barrymore (news) and Jimmy Fallon (news).



Fox's "Fever Pitch," which is set during the 2004 Red Sox season, stars Barrymore as a woman who falls for Fallon's Red Sox-obsessed sports addict. It is in production in Toronto and depicts the Red Sox losing just as the baseball team has for the past 85 years.


"We had gone into the movie anticipating that the Red Sox would not win the World Championship, and it would be another dismal ending for them, but love would conquer all," said Peter Farrelly, who is directing with brother Bobby. "But what happened because of this turn of events, we now have the double whammy of a happy love story and a championship team at the same time."


Because of the reversal of fortune, screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, who Americanized English author Nick Hornby's football novel, have been in rewrite mode to incorporate the championship run.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=598&ncid=790&e=2&u=/nm/20041029/film_nm/film_barrymore_dc

[Bombtrack]

1. Well, the ALCS alone is like something from a movie.

Like a Phoenix rising out of the ashes

[seaglass]

2. They were on the field kissing in St. Louis after the Sox

won the WS - now I know why.

[joeybee12]

3. That was Drew? I just thought Fallon was there cuz he's a big Sox fan

Couldn't really see the girl--just figured it was his girlfriend.

[MallRat]

4. No, they were filming on-the-fly.

Think about it... you couldn't possibly stage a postgame celebration like that, so you've got ONE SHOT to get it on film.

I hope they got it right. I loved the British film. Never read the book, though.

-MR

[Yavin4]

5. Finally, A Good Thing Happens From The Sox Win

It will keep another crappy Jimmy Fallon movie out of the theaters.