Puck also reports that Peacock wasn’t confident enough in Pratt’s replacement, Bill Heck (The Old Man). As a result, the streamer decided not to move forward with the project.

The show would have reportedly cost $15 million per episode. A large portion of that cost reportedly came from Schur’s desire to actually film the show at Boston’s Fenway Park.

While this is the first mention of Pratt’s involvement in the Peacock adaptation, Schur previously revealed several familiar faces we would have seen on Field of Dreams..Those actors would have nncluded some big names from his personal roster.

“Andre Braugher was going to play James Earl Jones’ role,” Schur said during an October 2023 appearance on the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast. “Kristen Bell was going to be in it. Nick Offerman was going to be in it. [William Jackson] Harper, who played Chidi in The Good Place, was going to be in it [too].”

Schur, who also works as a showrunner and producer, didn’t say which characters Bell or Offerman would have played. But the television creator did reveal that Harper would have stood in for Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson, the first Black baseball player in the American major leagues.

Field of Dreams was ordered to series in August 2021. Peacock’s official description states it would “reimagine the mixture of family, baseball, Iowa and magic that makes the movie so enduring and beloved.” The project remained in development for 10 months until officially striking out in June 2022.

The movie, which was nominated for three Oscars, was adapted from W.P. Kinsella’s novel Shoeless Joe. It starred Costner (Yellowstone) as a farmer who builds a baseball field on his land after being encouraged by a mysterious voice.