What some of us originally thought was just unsubstantiated internet hearsay when Opie posted the rumor a while back (What? Yeah, right. And I suppose they're gonna bring back Ghostbusters too, you crazy a-hole!), turns out to have actual merit -- pure, bored, sagging, money-hungry merit.
'Bull Durham 2: Back to the Demographics'* is being confirmed by writer-director Ron Shelton. Though no script is written yet, Shelton has a couple of ideas floating around the ol' think box:
Shelton says that Robbins' character, pitcher "Nuke" LaLoosh, had "a sort of an unrealized career [in the major leagues] in which we saw glimpses of his greatness." Costner's catcher Crash Davis "is now managing Durham in Triple A, back with a (major-league) dream alive again."
According to Robbins, the story will have Crash and his love interest Annie Savoy (played by Susan Sarandon) finding Nuke "in the middle of a drunken stupor in the middle of his hotel room or something ... and bring him back to the majors by teaching him how to throw a knuckleball."
Shelton then goes on to imply that Kevin Bacon will show up and teach Nuke the 'Jimmy Dolan Shake and Bake', which he will use on Wesley Snipes in a game of half-court basketball after Snipes calls him a racist and tells him that 'white people can't hear music', then Snipes has to run the baseball diamond in his pajamas to make Nuke's new team. Meanwhile, Crash starts talking smack to old Nuke as well, because Nuke wasted his talent and Crash learned a new fighting technique called 'The Crane' which looks easy to defend, but apparently is impossible, because it was taught to him by his son, a boy wizard, who is the newest 'wild thing' student at America's first school for wizards, located in, of course, Durham. The prospect of a third movie is looking dim.
*This is not the actual working title. We are accepting ideas for possible titles. The winner will receive a strong e-five and shout out.
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Very funny.
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