In an interview on Friday with Larry King, baseball movie actor-icon Kevin Costner said he's "got one more in him" -- and it's about the Chicago Cubs[1].
Hear a bit more about it from Costner himself:
Waits a beat.
This is cool. Costner's classics "Field of Dreams," "Bull Durham" and "For Love of the Game," which touch on various aspects and emotions of America's pastime, all hold up. (The latter doesn't compare to the other two but it was still entertaining. Let's be reasonable.)
Anyhow, I'm excited. But do you like this as a Cubs fan? There's a lot of mojo building in Chicago: a new nightclub-esque locker room, they opened the season as the Vegas favorite to win the World Series, last season ended when Thomas Ian Nichols aka Henry Rowengartner from another Cubs movie "Rookie of the Year" attended the 2015 NLCS in a jersey, hoping to bring them good luck.
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In a superstitious sport with a team that hasn't won it all since before the first World War, maybe Chicago fans would prefer a movie after there's a World Series parade?
Of course, Jimmy Fallon's "Fever Pitch" in 2004 initially had the Boston Red Sox[4] continuing to suffer, but the Farrelly Brothers altered it after the Red Sox shocked the Yankees in the ALCS and went on the break their own curse with a World Series win over the Cardinals.
Here's how the Farrelly Brothers changed the ending for "Fever Pitch," as explained by Entertainment Weekly[5]:
Terrified of jinxing the team, they waited until 5:30 p.m. that day to put the actors — armed with nothing more than a fanny pack full of makeup and a comb — on a plane to St. Louis. "It was totally surreal," says producer Nancy Juvonen of the last-minute shoot that captured the stars making out on the field as the Sox celebrated the end of the team's 86-year-old curse. A previously shot scene, in which Barrymore sprints across the outfield of Boston's Fenway Park, will now stand in for Game 4 of the American League championship (when Boston began its miracle comeback against the New York Yankees). "We've just kind of recalibrated our timeline," says Fox 2000 president Elizabeth Gabler. "We augmented our fairy tale. As [the Red Sox's] dream was realized, our couple's dream is also realized." And Hornby wants the credit: "Please tell the people of Boston that I am claiming personal responsibility for this."
So maybe Costner is going to be a hero for Chicago? I don't know. He should probably talk to Theo Epstein.
I digress. We still don't know exactly where Costner will take the Cubs in this movie. But help us answer this one question:
References
- ^ Chicago Cubs (www.foxsports.com)
- ^ new nightclub-esque locker room (www.foxsports.com)
- ^ attended the 2015 NLCS in a jersey (www.fo xsports.com)
- ^ Boston Red Sox (www.foxsports.com)
- ^ Entertainment Weekly (www.ew.com)
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