HBO Planning to Make Film About Barry Bonds

December 1st, 2007 in Book-to-Movie, Movie News, Sports

Things aren’t going so well for the infamous baseball player Barry Bonds, who was recently handed a federal indictment for perjury, but there is at least one bit of good news we have for him: HBO Films is planning to make a movie about him.   Scrap that.  It’s more bad news for the star who’s trying to beat the steroid abuse rumors.

The movie in question is actually based on events described in the book Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports, which was written by San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams.

The is beginning to make some progress, and according to Variety, Ron Shelton has been brought on board to direct the film, as well as co-write it with John Norville.  If you don’t recall, Shelton and Norville teamed up once before to collaborate on Tin Cup.  Shelton already has an impressive sports film resume, with films like Cobb, Bull Durham, Tin Cup, and White Man Can’t Jump included.

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