sacrilege

[vernacular_life]

It was weird enough to see Jimmy Fallon Kissing Drew Barrymore on the field seconds after the Red Sox won last night, but even more disturbing to find out that its for a movie. The Farrely brothers are remaking Fever Pitch, which is already a perfectly good movie starring Colin Farrell, released in 1997, and is summarized as such:

A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiography, Fever Pitch. English teacher Paul Ashworth (Colin Firth) believes his long standing obsession with Arsenal serves him well. But then he meets Sarah. Their relationship develops in tandem with Arsenal's roller coaster fortunes in the football league, both leading to a nail biting climax.

You see the problem here? Football (soccer), not Baseball, Arsenal not Red Sox, pitch(field), not pitch(throw).

according to IMDB.com, Fallon's film is

based on the Nick Hornby novel and movie "Fever Pitch" (1997) starring Colin Firth. Film has been updated to center of a guy and his obsession with the Boston Red Sox. Ben meets Lindsey. They fall in love. All things are wonderful. But their future together is threatened once the baseball season comes around and Lindsey discovers something about Ben...his obsession with the Boston Red Sox.

so it's basically this

versus this


It's not THAT weird of story..........has hollywood REALLY run out of ideas and thus forced to remake recent british movies???

Comments

[cesariohaines.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of last year when NBC remade the brit-com, Coupling. I mean, it was practically the same dialogue from the british version, and yet, not as funny as the original. I don't think they showed more than a few episodes before it was cancelled.

Some hollywood execs just don't know when to leave well enough alone!

[vernacular-life.livejournal.com]

exactly! i was trying to think of that as an example of "see what a disaster this is!"

at least they changed the character's names...

the only time this worked was for the Baz Luhrmann Romeo and Juliet, and there was, what, a couple of hundred years between the original and that remake