Field of Dreams Series Nixed at Peacock
Mike Schur‘s small-screen Field of Dreams adaptation has struck out at Peacock.
Ordered straight-to series back in August, the series is no longer moving forward at the two-year-old streamer, our sister site Variety reports. Producer Universal Television is said to now be shopping the project elsewhere.
Schur, the creator of Parks and Recreation and The Good Place, was set to write and executive-produce the series, which aimed to “reimagine the mixture of family, baseball, Iowa and magic that makes the movie so enduring and beloved,” per the official description. Other EPs include David Miner, who worked on other Schur series like Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Master of None, and Lawrence Gordon, who served as a producer on the 1989 Field of Dreams movie.
The movie Field of Dreams, which was adapted from W.P. Kinsella’s novel Shoeless Joe, starred Kevin Costner as Ray Kinsella, a farmer who builds a baseball field on his land after hearing a mysterious voice that urges him to do so.
“Through the years, Field of Dreams has remained a fan favorite, maintaining its rightful position in the zeitgeist,” NBCUniversal Television and Streaming chief Lisa Katz said last summer as Peacock greenlit Schur’s series. “It’s whimsical and grounded, a space where Mike Schur excels, and we’re looking forward to bringing a new version of this classic to Peacock.”
But… WHY?! Just because you can adapt it, should you?! Some movies should be left well enough alone.
This feels like an abomination waiting to happen. I’m glad it’s been cut off at the start.
When will they understand that you can’t remake these classic in today’s Hollywood? It’s nit just the stories it’s the actors who brought those characters to life that make them classics. Stop messing with these classic and come up with original ideas
You’re probably the same guy crying about when Hannibal or Bates Motel was announced.
One could have argued that about the movie since it was an adaptation itself.
Good. I was fully expecting JAWS: THE SERIES if this made it to air.
This was a great movie. I am not sure it would have been a GREAT series as sometimes spreading out stories for the sake of episodes makes for boring episodes
what the first movie pulls off, the twist at the end, can never truly be replicated as we know its coming…it loses its surprise element. we would have spend the whole series wondering how they’d pull off the end…or, i suppose the series could have been about what comes next, but im skeptical it would have worked.
Good! The movie is perfection and I just watched it again recently and it will always hold up. I’m so glad they won’t have a chance to ruin this gem.
.
Not every movie or tv show needs to be updated or reimagined.