Jason Bateman To Star In & Direct 8-Episode Series Adaptation Of Esquire Article DADDY BALL

Jason Bateman ("Ozark") is set to star in and direct an upcoming eight-episode limited series based on a 2021 Esquire magazine article written by David Gauvey Herbert. Netflix won a bidding war to secure the rights to the article, and will fast track the development of the project.

The article starts the way most dad-on-dad youth-sports rivalries do. But on the Long Island Inferno, two fathers, both with complicated pasts, took it all too far. There were claims of stalking, corrupt cops and mob connections. Neither man was ever the same.

Determined not to follow in his detached father's footsteps, Bobby Sanfilippo found himself doing quite the opposite with his son. He became entangled in an epic travel baseball dad-on-dad rivalry with a man named John Reardon that led tabloids to call him "a Suffolk County Steinbrenner", "seriously sick" and one of the worst dads in youth-sports history. It starts in the world of Little League baseball and expands into a Beef-like war between two smalltime criminal fathers. Both Sanfilippo and Reardon have rap sheets of their own, but what went down in the summer of 2012 at Baseball Heaven will define them and their families forever. Stalking claims, threatening text messages, and an unwarranted arrest later at the heart of it all, it's a story about the lengths fathers will go for their sons.

Herbert also has a project set up at MRC based on another Esquire article, "The Ballad of Ron & Dorinda", and one based on the New York Magazine piece "Boss of the Beach". The former is being adapted by Jessie Nickson-Lopez, while the latter is currently in development at Searchlight TV with Darren Aronofsky.

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