Chris Pratt Reportedly Nearly Led TV Reboot Of Kevin Costner's Oscar-Nominated Baseball Movie

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Chris Pratt was reportedly almost the lead of a Field of Dreams TV show. The Field of Dreams movie, which premiered in 1989, was based on the 1982 W. P. Kinsella novel Shoeless Joe and followed Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner), a farmer who builds a baseball diamond in a cornfield and begins playing with the ghosts of famous baseball players. The movie was a hit, grossing $84.4 million against a $15 million budget and eventually being nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

A new report from Puck details the Field of Dreams Peacock series, which was once being developed by The Good Place and Parks and Recreation creator Mike Schur, with plans to shoot at Fenway Park in Boston. The publication reports that Parks and Rec alum Chris Pratt was attached to star in the project, which had a $15 million budget per episode. However, Pratt "abruptly" left the project, followed by Schur, and Peacock did not have confidence in Schur's replacement Bill Heck, given the show's huge cost and, likely, its sudden lack of of an A-list star.

The Field Of Dreams Show Could Have Been Huge

The Show Was Also Set To Feature Other Mike Schur Alumni

Kevin Costner and Ray Liotta talking on a baseball diamond in Field of Dreams

This news that Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt was attached to the Mike Schur reboot show makes the scrapped project even more intriguing than it had already been. The creator had previously revealed multiple former collaborators who were attached to the show, including The Good Place's Kristen Bell and William Jackson Harper, Parks and Recreation's Nick Offerman, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine's and Andre Braugher. Alongside them and Pratt, the show would have also had room for plenty of exciting guest stars portraying various real-life Field of Dreams baseball players.

Mike Schur has a deep bench of potential guest stars to call upon, having also worked on the shows Hacks , The Office , and The Comeback .

With such a strong cast assembled, had Pratt stayed on board, it is possible that the show would have become a hit for the streaming platform in spite of its large budget. It could even have been renewed for future seasons that would have pushed the story beyond the original Field of Dreams ending. Its potential success could especially have been the case because, as this report underscores, Pratt has been selective with the television roles he takes on since the end of Parks and Recreation in 2015.

The only show Pratt has played a lead character in since 2015 is the Prime Video action drama The Terminal List, which has already spawned a burgeoning franchise. In addition to earning a season 2 renewal, a spinoff prequel titled The Terminal List: Dark Wolf is also in development, which will feature Pratt reprising his role opposite Taylor Kitsch as Ben Edwards. This might have been similar to the fate of Field of Dreams had he remained attached to the project.

Source: Puck

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