Will Smith to produce movie about Michael Jordan's baseball career
Alec Bojalad Dec 18, 2017
Will Smith is producing a script from 2017's Black List about Michael Jordan's brief baseball experiment
Imagine if LeBron James decided to take a year off of basektball to play amateur tennis. Imagine if Christiano Ronaldo wanted to devote a year to his real passion: interpretive dance.
Well in 1994, something as unexpected and bizarre as any of those hypotheticals happened. Michael Jordan, one of the greatest basketball players of all time, retired and decided to give it a go as a baseball player.
Now, 23 years later, Will Smith will be producing a movie about it.
The Prospect, written by Ben Epstein, was included on 2017's Black List - the list of best unproduced screenplays floating around Hollywood. It didn't have to wait long to find a home.
Epstein's script is about Michael Jordan's brief time in baseball. In 1994 Jordan signed with the Chicago White Sox's...
Will Smith is producing a script from 2017's Black List about Michael Jordan's brief baseball experiment
Imagine if LeBron James decided to take a year off of basektball to play amateur tennis. Imagine if Christiano Ronaldo wanted to devote a year to his real passion: interpretive dance.
Well in 1994, something as unexpected and bizarre as any of those hypotheticals happened. Michael Jordan, one of the greatest basketball players of all time, retired and decided to give it a go as a baseball player.
Now, 23 years later, Will Smith will be producing a movie about it.
The Prospect, written by Ben Epstein, was included on 2017's Black List - the list of best unproduced screenplays floating around Hollywood. It didn't have to wait long to find a home.
Epstein's script is about Michael Jordan's brief time in baseball. In 1994 Jordan signed with the Chicago White Sox's...
- 12/17/2017
- Den of Geek
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