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Larry Doyle |
For the record, Larry Doyle really wanted the high school in the new movie he scripted, “I Love You, Beth Cooper,” to be called Buffalo Grove High School.
After all, Buffalo Grove High School was what he called the school in his award-winning 2007 book (of the same title). He named it after the very same high school in Buffalo Grove where he graduated in 1976.
“It was not my choice,” Doyle told me from his Baltimore home. “I wanted it (the movie) to be shot at Buffalo Grove High School. That became a budgetary issue.”
Instead, 20th Century Fox made “I Love You, Beth Cooper” in Vancouver, where it’s cheaper than in the Chicago suburbs. (The film cost a relative pittance of $20 million.)
“Plus,” Doyle said, “if we had shot it at Buffalo Grove High School, we would have had to change the name, anyway.”
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