Saturday, March 13, 2010

Fantasyland - The Movie

Word was sent out this week that the documentary movie version of "Fantasyland", the book by reporter Sam Walker in which he chronicles his rookie season in the Tout Wars expert league, is finally prepping for release.  Rather than a broadcast, it sounds like this will be a direct-to-web release.  I had given up hope of ever seeing this, since it covers the 2008 season (at least, that was the original intent).  The film has "regular guy" Jed Latkin filling Sam Walker's non-expert role for a season in the AL-only Tout Wars.

The film has a tangential CFCL connection, as former CFCLer Jason Grey is one of the experts participating in Tout Wars AL.

The film is due to be released on March 19 , when it will be posted at http://fantasylandfilm.com/ or  http://snagfilms.com/.

An outtake snippet posted on YouTube has Jed trying to get an update on Barry Bonds' situation from Bonds' agent Jeff Borris (and oddly thinking he's speaking to Scott Boras).



Edit to note that the clip is an outtake and not in the final cut of the film...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is, in fact, an outtake, but still gives you a general sense of what goes on in the film.

Unknown said...

Thanks - that makes a lot more sense. I'm looking forward to seeing the film - it's been a long time waiting.