Appointment Television: Apple TV series on Lou Gehrig in the works

April 5, 2023

Was listening to Extra Hot Great, one of my favorite podcasts ever, and heard a mention of this under “Winners of the Week”:

“Lou Gehrig Series From Lorne Michaels in the Works at Apple”

From the Hollywood Reporter article: “The iPhone maker/streamer is teaming with Universal Television and Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video to adapt author Jonathan Eig’s book, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, as a scripted television series, sources say.”

The book was previously developed in 2017 as a movie and set up with [Dan] Kay penning the screenplay and Jay Russell attached as director. While nothing came from the project, the authorized biopic was blessed by the New York Yankees. Michaels and David Uslan, as well as the author and Kay, were all attached. Gehrig’s life was previously portrayed in the 1942 feature film The Pride of the Yankees, which starred Gary Cooper. The pic was ranked as AFI’s third-best sports movie ever in 2008.

Here are my Bookshelf Conversations with Eig on

And here’s a reference to that movie concept.

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