Field of Dreams hit Peacock.
Streamer NBCUniversal has abruptly dropped its series reboot of Kevin Costner’s classic baseball film, Deadline has confirmed.
The project, which comes from The Good Place creator Michael Schur, the film’s producer Lawrence Gordon and Universal TV, has been given a series order in August 2021.
Universal TV is already shopping the series to other distributors and platforms. The show is believed to be prepped and ready in a month of production with seven hour-long scripts. As recently announced, filming was to take place throughout Iowa, which supports the series financially, as well as in Boston, Minneapolis and Los Angeles.
Written by Schur, the series was meant to reimagine the mix of family, baseball, Iowa and magic that made the movie so enduring and beloved.
The pickup came amid a surge in popularity for the 1989 movie starring Kevin Costner after last summer’s “Field of Dreams” baseball game between the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox aired in prime time on Fox. It was the most-watched Major League Baseball regular-season telecast since 2005, according to Nielsen, and Fox’s most-televised regular-season game in its history.
Schur was set to executive produce the series through his Fremulon banner, alongside Gordon for The Gordon Company, David Miner and former The Good Place EP Morgan Sackett.
The 1989 sports fantasy Field of Dreams was written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson and was based on WP Kinsella’s 1982 novel Shoeless Joe. In it, Costner plays a farmer who builds a baseball field in his Iowa cornfield that attracts the ghosts of baseball legends.
Variety first reported the news.
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