Field of Dreams attacked Peacock.
The NBCUniversal streamer has abruptly canceled its series reboot of Kevin Costner’s classic baseball film, Deadline has confirmed.
The project, which comes from The Good Place creator Michael Schur, the film’s producer Lawrence Gordon, and Universal TV, had landed a direct series order in August 2021.
Universal TV is now buying the series from other channels and platforms. The show is believed to have been cast and finished a month into production with seven-hour scripts. As recently announced, filming will take place across Iowa, which sponsors the series, as well as in Boston, Minneapolis and Los Angeles.
Written by Schur, the series was intended to reinterpret the blend of family, baseball, Iowa, and magic that made the film so enduring and popular.
The pickup came amid a surge in popularity for the 1989 film starring Kevin Costner following last summer’s baseball game “Field of Dreams” between the New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox, which aired in prime time on Fox. According to Nielsen, it was Major League Baseball’s most-watched regular-season broadcast on any network since 2005 and the most-streamed regular-season game in its history.
Schur was set to execute the series from his Fremulon banner, along with Gordon for The Gordon Company, David Miner and former The Good Place EP Morgan Sackett.
Written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson, Field of Dreams is a 1989 sports fantasy film based on WP Kinsella’s 1982 novel Shoeless Joe. Costner played a farmer who turns his Iowa cornfield into a baseball field builds that attract the spirits of baseball legends.
Variety first reported the news.