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    Every Hollywood studio passed on 'Bull Durham' twice. How it got made anyway

    by Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times Aug 03, 2022 6 minutes
    "The Church of Baseball," by Ron Shelton.

    There's a temptation when speaking to directors of classic films to ask whether their career-defining movie could get a studio's green light today. The glossed-over reality, often, is that those pictures barely got made, even at the time.

    The script for 1988's "Bull Durham," an unconventional comedy set in the world of minor league baseball, was passed on by every studio in Hollywood. Twice. The second time screenwriter Ron Shelton made the rounds, he was joined by Kevin Costner, who would play the aging catcher Crash Davis. Still nothing.

    The two had a 30-day window, imposed by Costner's agents, to convince a studio to finance the movie, or Shelton would lose his star to a Warner Bros. project. At 3 p.m. on the day of the deadline, Shelton got a call. Orion Pictures was on board. What Shelton didn't know at the time was that Orion had just received a confidence boost about Costner. The Costner-starring political thriller "No Way Out" had in the New York Times.

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