According to a report in Variety, Ron Shelton, who brought the baseball classic Bull Durham to the big screen, has been signed to turn Game of Shadows, the expose on Barry Bonds and steroids, into a HBO project.
Shelton will write the script with his “Tin Cup” writing partner John Norville as soon as the writers strike ends. The film will be exec produced by Ross Greenburg, the HBO Sports president who exec produced Roger Maris biopic “61*,” and Michael Greenburg (“Stargate SG-1”), who’s now exec producer of Score Prods.
Shelton, a former minor league player, also wrote and directed Cobb, Tin Cup and White Men Can’t Jump.
istorically, it’s been difficult to turn baseball non-fiction into a feature film (See Cobb and the majority of other bio-pics. Most recently, ESPN aired The Bronx is Burning, based on Jonathan Mahler’s book about the 1977 Yankees, to mixed reviews.
No timetable for the project was released in the Variety story.
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