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Casting the BALCO TV movie
Published 11/29/2007 at Blogging the Bombers - NY Daily News Blogs
... Just read an interesting tidbit on Variety’s Web site: HBO Films has acquired the rights to the book “Game of Shadows” and will produce a TV movie about Barry Bonds and the BALCO steroid scandal. ...

HBO to film Bonds movie; Cast the characters
Published 11/29/2007 by GRG51 at Steroid Nation
... HBO acquired the rights to 'Game of Shadows' the book documenting BALCO and the gang.  Story in Variety. Ron Shelton has been set by HBO Films to direct a pic about San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds that will air on HBO... HBO Films has acquired rights to "Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports," a book by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, the San Francisco Chronicle ...

HBO Films has Barry Bonds project in the works
Published 11/29/2007 by Neil Best at Watchdog
... One day after revealing an upcoming biopic of Joe Namath, Variety has a story today about an HBO Films project on a more contemporary figure: Barry Bonds. ...

HBO Developing Barry Bonds Movie
Published 11/29/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
HBO Developing Barry Bonds Movie Weeeeeeeee! If Marcus Carl Franklin can be Dylan...I want Frank Caliendo to play Bonds! Ron Shelton has been set by HBO Films to direct a pic about San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds that will air on HBO. Bonds ended a season in which he broke baseball’s all-time home run record only to be indicted on federal charges for perjury and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying under oath when he told a grand jury he had never used performance-enhancing drugs. ...Shelton will write the script with his “Tin Cup” writing partner John ...

Lancelot Links
Published 11/29/2007 by josh q. public at josh q. public
Lancelot Links: 1.  Strike another match, go start anew.  And it’s all over now, Baby Blue.  No it ain’t.  It’s only the beginning.  Home Run Derby 2.  ‘Fire Isiah’ Chant Breaks Out During Knicks’ Front-Office Meeting.  Onion Sports 3.  Had enough of Bonds yet?  HBO hasn’t.  They’re making a movie.  Variety 4.  Thanks to Barry Melrose Rocks ...

HBO Producing Movie on Barry Bonds
Published 11/29/2007 by Maury Brown at The Biz of Baseball :: Business of Sports Network
... Ron Shelton, who has screenplay credits for Bad Boys II, The Great White Hype, and who has directed Tin Cup, and Cobb to name but a few, will be directing a film for HBO on Barry Bonds. As reported by Variety: ...

HBO to Film Barroid Biopic
Published 11/29/2007 by Mantlemurcer at My Pinstripes
... has acquired the film rights to the book, "Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports", with veteran director/writer Ron Shelton picked to helm the project. Shelton will write the screenplay along with John Norville, who worked on "Tin Cup" with him. The only question remains, will several actors be needed to show the varying sizes of Barry Bonds' head? Source

Let Me Be The First To Suggest Sascha Baron-Cohen For The Part Of Pedro Gomez
Published 11/29/2007 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
Richard Dreyfus as Victor Conte? Robert Iler as the Giambino? From Variety : Ron Shelton has been set by HBO Films to direct a pic about San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds that will air on HBO. HBO Films has acquired rights to “Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports,” a book by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, the San Francisco Chronicle reporters who broke numerous stories about the ...

HBO Films to Make 'Game of Shadows' Movie
Published 11/30/2007 by PostmanR at FanHouse
... because I've watched them play or seen footage of them and when I see some actor portraying that athlete in a film -- I can't help but think that, well, it doesn't look like them. And welp, that sort of ruins it for me. (A poor logic base, yes. Let's just blame all those horrible ESPN made-for-TV movies instead, huh?) In any event, HBO Films has bought the rights to "Game of Shadows," the now famous book that brought all Barry Bonds' steroid use and the like to light. The details: Ron Shelton has been set by HBO Films to direct a pic about ...

Today's Best - 11.29.07
Published 11/30/2007 by quang the heavy favorite at Garbage Points
... 4. chi mcbride - with the news that hbo is planning to make a movie based on "game of shadows", it marks barry bonds' first return to the big screen since 12-year old henry rowengartner struck him out in ...