Peacock is not moving forward with a Field of Dreams series adaptation, Variety reports. The Field of Dreams reimagining was originally ordered at Peacock in August 2021. Interest in the film, which starred Kevin Costner, picked up last year after baseball’s Field of Dreams games between the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox aired to high viewership. The series was set to film entirely in Iowa, the setting of the original film. Universal Television is still hoping to find a home for the project, and shopping it to other networks and streamers.
Michael Shur was set to write the Field of Dreams adaptation. He was also set to executive produce under Fremulon, with Lawrence Gordon of The Gordon Company, David Miner of 3 Arts and Morgan Sackett. Schur is the creator of The Good Place, co-creator of Parks and Recreation, Rutherford Falls and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and has worked on series including The Office, Master of None and Hacks. He will serve as executive producer for Freevee’s upcoming Primo. The Gordon company produced the 1989 film.
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The original 1989 film follows Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (played by Costner). After a mysterious voice tells him, “If you build it, he will come,” Ray builds a baseball diamond in his cornfield. The baseball diamond attracts the spirits of iconic baseball figures, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, played by the late Ray Liotta. The film stars Costner, Liotta, James Earl Jones, Amy Madigan and Burt Lancaster. Field of Dreams was nominated for three Academy Awards.
The film is based on the Shoeless Joe novel written by W.P. Kinsella. Director Phil Alden Robinson read the novel and took it to producers Lawrence Gordon and Charles Gordon in 1981. At the time Lawrence Gordon worked for 20th Century Fox, but the studio turned down the pitch. In 1986, Lawrence Gordon left Fox and began pitching the adaptation to other studios. In 1987, Universal Pictures accepted the project in 1987 and went on to hire USC coach Rod Dedeaux as baseball advisor. World Series champion and USC alumnus Don Buford served as a coach for the actors.
Costner, an Academy and Emmy Award-winning actor, currently appears on Yellowstone. Next month, he will begin production on the Western Horizon. He will serve as director.
