"Bull Durham" sequel!?!

[Inky_Wretch]

No, no, no!

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10062008/gossip/pagesix/twin_bill_132345.htm

 

[outofplace]

I'm with you there, Inky. Sounds like a truly horrible idea.

First Costner ruins a baseball book that I love (For Love of the Game) and now he wants to ruin one of my favorite movies with a ridiculous sequel. I'm really starting to hate that guy.

Leave it the **** alone!

 

[RossLT]

Isn't it a little late for a sequel?

 

[bigpern23]

Wait ... Annie and NUKE get married??? Come on, I know they're married in real life, but the original left little doubt Annie and Crash were made for each other, not Nuke and Annie.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Wait ... Annie and NUKE get married??? Come on, I know they're married in real life, but the original left little doubt Annie and Crash were made for each other, not Nuke and Annie.

It's OK. I've procured the script.

In it, Crash leads the MLB team (yet to be determined, but surely a down-trodden club that hasn't won a title in say 100 years) to a World Series berth. Just before Game 7, Annie and Crash can no longer control their urges and do it on the manager's clubhouse desk. This clears Crash's mind and he's able to win the title by having an aging, journeyman catcher lay down a suicide squeeze bunt with two outs for the win.

 

[Claws for Concern]

Slap Shot 2
Caddyshack 2

... in other words, don't do it Hollywood!

 

[Beaker]

Ugh, this is a bad idea.

 

[Lester Bangs]

They own a Major League team that he manages?

I could maybe swallow Annie and Crash having a son who's about to start playing in the bush leagues, but are Shelton and Costner really this desperate?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Slap Shot 2
Caddyshack 2

... in other words, don't do it Hollywood!

As long as Jackie Mason isn't in it...

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

Working title: Bull ****

 

[BigSleeper]

Didn't someone at ESPN or SI.com write a recent column, catching up with the characters? I never cared for the movie, but I thought the column was amusing.

Can't say I'm surprised by this. Creativity is dead. They've churned out book sequels to just about everything, including classics like "Casablanca" (I read that one. Ugh.) and continued classics without the original authors, like the Godfather. Sad indeed.

 

[txsportsscribe]

hey, would you rather the guy do a sequel to "water world?"

 

[BigSleeper]

I'd rather he die.

Here's the Austin Murphy fictional follow-up:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/austin_murphy/06/17/murphy.bulldurham/index.html

 

[Lester Bangs]

hey, would you rather the guy do a sequel to "water world?"

Yes.

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

I'm with Lester.

 

[RossLT]

Me too, you can do sequels to all the ****ty films you want.

 

[DanOregon]

Don't mind the idea of a sequel, but the premise seems bad. Why not just set it in the off-season at a bed and breakfast owned by Crash and Annie while Nuke is sweating out results from the Hall of Fame vote (his last before he has to go to the Veterans Committee)? It wasn't the baseball that made the first movie great anyway.

 

[BYH]

Don't mind the idea of a sequel, but the premise seems bad. Why not just set it in the off-season at a bed and breakfast owned by Crash and Annie while Nuke is sweating out results from the Hall of Fame vote (his last before he has to go to the Veterans Committee)?

That's a really good idea.

 

[Shoeless Joe]

I bet Crash is gonna be the manger in Visalia

 

[Buck]

Crash Davis has become a tough, hard-nosed cop with a heart of gold. He's a good cop, but he doesn't always follow the rules.
Nuke Laloosh is his hippy-dippy, new-age partner.
Annie Savoy is even smarter than she is sexy, but she can't seem to choose between Crash's smoldering intensity or Nuke's goofy charm.