![]() “An hour after I read it, I called Pete Farrelly. “They sent me the screenplay,” he recalls. The next step was to get Richman himself on board. ![]() And then they played another one, and I said, ‘Hey, you know what, this would be a good one too.’” Rather than merely stacking the soundtrack with Richman’s tunes, Bobby recommended using the cult hero in the film itself. “We had just written the script,” Peter explains. “When we heard ‘Let Her Go Into the Darkness,’ I turned to Bobby and told him it’d be great for the movie. That came only after the Farrellys attended one of Richman’s Los Angeles gigs. The first draft of the script, however, didn’t feature the wrap-around musical narration. Strauss to make a film that upped their raunchy revelry to an excruciating, exhilarating new degree - bending the preconceived laws of propriety and busting the boundaries of mainstream comedy filmmaking. When it came time for their third film, the duo rewrote from a script by Ed Decter and John J. ![]() The brothers later became comedy icons on the back of Dumb and Dumber and Kingpin, returning continuously to their New England roots in their work. “I always loved their work,” Peter Farrelly says. The genesis of one of film history’s most unlikely troubadours stretches decades back to when directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly were just a couple of kids in Rhode Island, listening to the “Road Runner” by the Modern Lovers - Richman’s former band - on local radio. JoJo Siwa to Co-Star in 'All My Friends Are Dead' Horror Movie ![]()
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