A Field of Dreams TV Show Is Coming From The Good Place Creator

“If you build it, he will come” simply bought a complete new which means. Every week after Major League Baseball unveiled a newly constructed baseball stadium impressed by 1989’s Field of Dreams, a brand new TV present primarily based on that sports activities fantasy film has been introduced from Good Place and Office author Michael Schur. The sequence “will reimagine the mixture of family, baseball, Iowa, and magic that makes the movie so enduring and beloved,” in accordance with a press launch. It’s been ordered straight to sequence and can live on Universal’s streaming service, Peacock.

“Field of Dreams is an iconic Universal Film title from venerable producers Lawrence and Charles Gordon, that we could only have entrusted to Mike Schur,” Erin Underhill, president of Universal Television, mentioned within the launch. “His talent, his love for baseball, and his reverence for its themes make him the perfect choice to revisit this beloved film that evokes nostalgia and visceral emotion in so many of its fans.”

Written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson and primarily based on the 1982 novel Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella, Field of Dreams stars Kevin Costner as Ray, an Iowa farmer who sooner or later hears a mysterious voice saying “If you build it, he will come.” Ray realizes the “it” is a baseball area, so he pours all of his household’s cash into constructing a baseball area the place the ghosts of legendary baseball gamers start to look. Though it didn’t win any of the three Oscars it was nominated for (Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay, and Score), Field of Dreams has turn into one of the iconic (and tear-jerking) sports activities motion pictures of all time. It co-stars Ray Liotta, James Earl Jones, and Amy Madigan, amongst others.

The movie has endured a lot that, as beforehand talked about, Major League Baseball constructed a area subsequent to the filming location for the film and hosted a game there just last week. Filled with references to the film, the printed was the highest-rated common season baseball recreation in nearly 20 years. “Through the years, Field of Dreams has remained a fan favorite, maintaining its rightful position in the zeitgeist,” mentioned Lisa Katz, President of NBCUniversal tv and streaming. “It’s whimsical and grounded, a space where Mike Schur excels, and we’re looking forward to bringing a new version of this classic to Peacock.”

How Schur will seize the magic of the film in an prolonged TV format is, after all, the largest query. But making an attempt to reinterpret a movie as well-known as Field of Dreams isn’t one thing an individual with a resumé as spectacular as Schur will method flippantly. What do you consider this new Field of Dreams challenge?

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