Fever Pitch
The original story is a semi-autobiographical look at Hornby's devotion to soccer and his favorite team, Arsenal.
Scribes Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel adapted the story to focus on the more American pastime of baseball.
The new Farrelly Brothers' film "Fever Pitch" revolves around a man (Jimmy Fallon) obsessed with the Boston Red Sox and the woman (Drew Barrymore) who gets pulled into the madness.
Not expected to be out until October of 2005, but I'm putting this up now because it made the news in recent days. Fallon, Barrymore and a film crew were filming in St. Louis when the Sox won the Series.
From the Boston Herald:
Fever Pitch article
It's a wrap! And THAT'S what we call a Hollywood ending!
By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa
Thursday, October 28, 2004
ST. LOUIS - The stars aligned last night at Busch Stadium where the Red Sox reversed the World Series curse that's haunted the Boston sports scene for 86 years with a 3-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals.
Frolicking in the champagne-soaked celebration on the field with the team and hundreds of Boston Believers was ``Fever Pitch'' star Drew Barrymore, wearing a Red Sox jacket, refilming the finale of her baseball movie.
Her co-star Jimmy Fallon and ``Tessie'' gal Colleen Reilly were spotted jumping up and down during the raucous post-party in the infield screaming ``They did it!'' at the top of their lungs. And in a bizarre case of art imitating life, the Farrelly Brothers' cameras were rolling when the last out was recorded and the Red Sox won their first World Series since 1918.
``It's a great day in baseball,'' Fallon told the Track. ``It's been 86 years of torture and torment, 86 years of people screaming blood-curdling screams at the Red Sox. They deserve this.''
``Fever'' director Peter Farrelly worked the phones all day to get a camera crew as well as Drew and her co-star Jimmy Fallon to the Gateway City.
``We've got them celebrating on the field,'' he said. ``It's the end of the movie. And what an ending it was. This is like the aliens made contact. It's something we've thought about for a long time, but never thought was possible.''
As we told you the other day, the funny flick about a rabid Red Sox fan and the woman who loves him is in the midst of an 11th-hour script rewrite because the final scenes did not reflect the Sox even making it to the World Series. Really, who would have thunk it???
``We've always been lucky but this is the luckiest we've ever been - to be involved with this thing at this time,'' Bobby Farrelly told the Track.
``Actually, our only discernable talent is luck.''
The original story is a semi-autobiographical look at Hornby's devotion to soccer and his favorite team, Arsenal.
Scribes Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel adapted the story to focus on the more American pastime of baseball.
The new Farrelly Brothers' film "Fever Pitch" revolves around a man (Jimmy Fallon) obsessed with the Boston Red Sox and the woman (Drew Barrymore) who gets pulled into the madness.
Not expected to be out until October of 2005, but I'm putting this up now because it made the news in recent days. Fallon, Barrymore and a film crew were filming in St. Louis when the Sox won the Series.
From the Boston Herald:
Fever Pitch article
It's a wrap! And THAT'S what we call a Hollywood ending!
By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa
Thursday, October 28, 2004
ST. LOUIS - The stars aligned last night at Busch Stadium where the Red Sox reversed the World Series curse that's haunted the Boston sports scene for 86 years with a 3-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals.
Frolicking in the champagne-soaked celebration on the field with the team and hundreds of Boston Believers was ``Fever Pitch'' star Drew Barrymore, wearing a Red Sox jacket, refilming the finale of her baseball movie.
Her co-star Jimmy Fallon and ``Tessie'' gal Colleen Reilly were spotted jumping up and down during the raucous post-party in the infield screaming ``They did it!'' at the top of their lungs. And in a bizarre case of art imitating life, the Farrelly Brothers' cameras were rolling when the last out was recorded and the Red Sox won their first World Series since 1918.
``It's a great day in baseball,'' Fallon told the Track. ``It's been 86 years of torture and torment, 86 years of people screaming blood-curdling screams at the Red Sox. They deserve this.''
``Fever'' director Peter Farrelly worked the phones all day to get a camera crew as well as Drew and her co-star Jimmy Fallon to the Gateway City.
``We've got them celebrating on the field,'' he said. ``It's the end of the movie. And what an ending it was. This is like the aliens made contact. It's something we've thought about for a long time, but never thought was possible.''
As we told you the other day, the funny flick about a rabid Red Sox fan and the woman who loves him is in the midst of an 11th-hour script rewrite because the final scenes did not reflect the Sox even making it to the World Series. Really, who would have thunk it???
``We've always been lucky but this is the luckiest we've ever been - to be involved with this thing at this time,'' Bobby Farrelly told the Track.
``Actually, our only discernable talent is luck.''
