Fever Pitched

Not content with taking High Fidelity and switching the action from North London to Chicago, American filmmakers are now planning to take Hornby's ode to Arsenal, Fever Pitch, and yankify the plot even further than they did with Fidelity. Despite America's impressive performance in the recent World Cup, 20th Century Fox have deemed 'soccer' to be too European a sport and have subsequently repurposed Hornby's footie fiction as a baseball story. Arsenal has been replaced with the Boston Red Sox, but the gist of the story remains the same. Boy meets girl. Boy prefers watching sport to being with girl. Girl gets narked off. Shawn Levy, whose previous credits include Lassie (no, really) and The Famous Jett Jackson, is on board to direct the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It's the second big screen adaptation for the novel, which was first made into a film back in 1997 starring Colin Firth, and distributed in America with a fabulously misleading poster.