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.
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