Kevin Costner Had Plans For Another Sports Movie… But Then One MLB Team Went & Ruined The Idea

In an alternate universe, there’d be one more sports movie in existence with Kevin Costner at the helm.Think of all the class sports films that the Yellowstone actor has been a part of. Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, For the Love of the Game, Tin Cup, Draft Day… there’s almost too many to count. And if things would have gone a bit differently in 2016, we may have had another baseball movie to add to that resume.

During a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, the soon to be 72-year-old actor was asked if he’d ever return to the sports genre. Considering Costner has had a couple of lackluster projects as of late (specifically with his Horizon: An American Saga films), the actor and director is understandably being more selective.That being said, Costner confessed that he’d love to do another sports movie, but it would have to be something that really spoke to him:“I would. I made ‘Field of Dreams’ and ‘Bull Durham’ back to back, and one was thought of as box office poison. ‘Field of Dreams’ and ‘Bull Durham’ separated themselves. I never saw that as being a risk… I just knew I read something great in ‘Bull Durham.’ I knew I read something great in ‘Field of Dreams.’ The whole idea of this game is you try to match your sensibilities up with the audience.”I would imagine that, in the modern day, it’d be tough to find a script that delivers like one of those classics.