Summary
Chris Pratt was reportedly almost the lead of aField of DreamsTV show. TheField of Dreamsmovie, which premiered in 1989, was based on the 1982 W. P. Kinsella novelShoeless Joeand 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 fromPuckdetails theField of DreamsPeacock series, which was once being developed byThe Good PlaceandParks and Recreationcreator Mike Schur, with plans to shoot at Fenway Park in Boston. The publication reports thatParks and Recalum 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 an A-list star.
The Field Of Dreams Show Could Have Been Huge
The Show Was Also Set To Feature Other Mike Schur Alumni
This news thatGuardians of the Galaxystar 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, includingThe Good Place’s Kristen Bell and William Jackson Harper,Parks and Recreation’s Nick Offerman, andBrooklyn Nine-Nine’s and Andre Braugher. Alongside them and Pratt, the show would have also had room for plenty of exciting guest stars portraying variousreal-lifeField of Dreamsbaseball players.
Mike Schur has a deep bench of potential guest stars to call upon, having also worked on the showsHacks,The Office, andThe 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 platformin spite of its large budget. It could even have been renewed for future seasons that would have pushed the story beyond the originalField of Dreamsending. 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 ofParks and Recreationin 2015.
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The only show Pratt has played a lead character in since 2015 is the Prime Video action dramaThe Terminal List, which has already spawned a burgeoning franchise. In addition to earning a season 2 renewal, a spinoff prequel titledThe Terminal List: Dark Wolfis also in development, which will feature Pratt reprising his role opposite Taylor Kitsch as Ben Edwards. This might have been similar to the fate ofField of Dreamshad he remained attached to the project.
Field of Dreams
Cast
Based on a novel by W. P. Kinsella, Field of Dreams stars Kevin Costner as Ray Kinsella, a farmer living in Iowa who one evening begins hearing a mysterious voice urging him to build a baseball diamond in his cornfield. An avid baseball fan, Ray takes on the project in hopes of honoring his late father. Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, and Burt Lancaster also star.
