There's already a British version of Fever Pitch that hews pretty closely to the Nick Hornby novel. Did Hornby have any role in this adaptation?
Peter Farrelly Well, to be perfectly honest, Nick didn't get involved. He was basically like, ''Go ahead, God bless ya.''
Barrymore But having his name on it was this huge imprint of class.
Bobby Farrelly And this isn't one of those adapted screenplays where you pull the dialogue out of the book. [Screenwriters] Babaloo Mandel and Lowell Ganz just took the concept of a love triangle between a guy, a girl, and a team and completely rewrote it.
For you guys, that counts as pretty damn conventional.
Peter Farrelly Well, we wanted to kill her at the end, but the studio wouldn't go for it. [Laughs] Seriously, though, it wasn't a conscious decision, because Shallow Hal and Stuck on You were both PG-13, and if anything we were looking to go the other way. Until we read the script and then we were like, Awww s---, we gotta do this.
You haven't gone soft on us, have you?
Bobby Farrelly Hell, no. We haven't gone soft, and there has been no growth. This I assure you. (Additional reporting by Chris Nashawaty)
(This is an online-only excerpt of Entertainment Weekly's April 8, 2005, cover story.)
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