Not Metro related...but this is the only forum I post in. Variety reported that Fox 2000 Pictures is remaking Nick Hornby’s “Fever Pitch” into a movie about supporting the Boston Red Sox, instead of Arsenal. Whats next? Bend it like Johnny Bench?
As if you needed another reason not to see a remake of a good movie, changing the team to the Red Sux does it for me. What will they use in lieu of Michael Thomas' goal to send Arsenal the Championship? Do they have any black and white wood carvings of the Babe pitching the Red Suz to the World Series in 1918?
Not to mention his commentary about watching the events at Heysel unfold live in front of a classroom of Italians. Is the guy going to be teaching an English class to Bostonians while Buckner boots the Mookie Wilson grounder? Hillsborough as well. Just annoying.
They may have to end it on a down note with Bucky Dent or Bill Buckner or just make some ************ up.
The Red Sox??? I can already envision in my mind the moment they hope to equate with Arsenal's last-gasp goal to win the league at Anfield in '89... Carlton Fisk's homer in Game 6 the '76 Series. The fact that can be easily glossed over in such a movie is the fact that the Reds put down the Sox in Game 7 the following night.
The only shred of similarity between the two teams is the mutual hatred of the Yankee/ManU alliance. Other than that... I like Nick Hornby, but I will not watch this movie.
Anyone see Mean Machine (remake of the Longest Yard)? They changed the sport in that too, probably to make it more appealing to a different market (that didn't care about American football - or maybe Burt Reynolds). Fact of the matter is that Fever Pitch is a great book, but not because it is about soccer. The traits that Nick Hornby had in that book are not exclusive to soccer fans. All sports fans are f'in lunatics. If more people here will watch it if it is based on the Red Sox, great.
Well if the book was just about him then yeah. But it was also about certain events and situations that reshaped his life that can really only happen in soccer. It was as much as it was about the game(in and out of the pitch) as it was a story about his life. I guess you can sort of substitute somethings but the translation and quality of the story will lose some of its appeal.
Most movies those schmucks in GlitzyWood,CA try to see sound dumb. Nothing out of the ordinary for them. "Hey,let's redo Lord of the Rings only we'll change it so it's about a semi-pro football team making it to Super Bowl while fighting off evil demons." "Sounds great!"
What a movie about a robot that travels back in time for some reason, his best friend is a talking pie.