Exclusive: Ted Melfi, whose new film The Starling premiered last night at the Toronto Film Festival, has been set to adapt, direct and produce for Netflix Underworld, based on the seminal novel by Don DeLillo. The novel is a sprawling tapestry spread across decades that has a through line of the home run Bobby Thomson hit in 1951 to win the pennant for the New York Giants, breaking the hearts of crosstown fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
As the home run is hit and retrieved by a young fan named Cotter Martin, things are happening all around, including J. Edgar Hoover learning that moment that the Soviet Union had completed its first test of the hydrogen bomb. The ball eventually winds up in the hands of a waste management business owner named Nick Shay, who sets out to find the original owner as he sorts out his own mess of a life.
As the home run is hit and retrieved by a young fan named Cotter Martin, things are happening all around, including J. Edgar Hoover learning that moment that the Soviet Union had completed its first test of the hydrogen bomb. The ball eventually winds up in the hands of a waste management business owner named Nick Shay, who sets out to find the original owner as he sorts out his own mess of a life.
- 9/13/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Tune in alert for the definitive documentary on the fate of Bobby Thomson.s legendary 1951 Home Run Ball, "Miracle Ball," which premieres Saturday, September 29 at 8Pm Et/Pt with an Anniversary Encore on Wednesday, October 3 at 6:30Pm Et/Pt only on Velocity. On October 3rd, 1951 New York Giants third baseman Bobby Thomson hit .The Shot Heard Round the World. - the walk-off home run against Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca clinching the National League pennant and achieving one of the most dramatic moments in baseball and American sports history. But the central artifact of the game - the home run ball - landed in the grandstand and vanished without a trace. For more than half...
- 9/7/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
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