A 'Field of Dreams' series adaptation is headed to Peacock

Field of Dreams fans are flourishing.

"A series adaptation of Field of Dreams has been ordered straight-to-series at Peacock," Variety relayed Monday (Aug. 16). "The television take on the beloved baseball film hails from Michael Schur, who will serve as writer and executive producer under his Fremulon banner. Lawrence Gordon of The Gordon Company will also executive produce along with David Miner of 3 Arts and Morgan Sackett. Universal Television, where Fremulon is under an overall deal, will produce. The Gordon Company produced the original film."

Schur was the mastermind behind beloved television series such as Parks and Recreation and The Good Place, and the 45-year-old producer and writer is also an avid baseball fan who has served as the color commentator for Chicago White Sox games in the past.

The White Sox, coincidentally, played against the New York Yankees in the inaugural Field of Dreams Game last Thursday (Aug. 12) that recreated core elements of the 1989 sports drama starring Kevin Costner as Ray Kinsella, a farmer in Dyersville, Iowa.

Directed by Phil Alden Robinson and adapted from W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe novel, a mysterious voice in his cornfield implores Ray, "If you build it, he will come." Ultimately, Ray transforms this otherwise negligible cornfield into a field where dreams come true—get it?—with the "Black Sox" scandal associated with the 1919 White Sox as the backdrop.