How Kevin Costner Helped ‘Bull Durham’ Get Made at the 11th Hour - The Ringer

In an exclusive excerpt from his new book ‘The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham,’ screenwriter and director Ron Shelton describes how close the movie was to never getting made—and how Costner’s attachment pushed it across home plate

I sent the script to Thom Mount, expecting pages of notes about what the rewrite should entail. I was sure hed redline many of the scenes that werent about the three protagonists/heroes, Crash, Annie… [+17594 chars]

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