{"id":876480,"date":"2026-10-09T16:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876480\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T16:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:14:16","slug":"mlb-n-y-mets-helping-film-new-baseball-movie-the-comebacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876480\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB, N.Y. Mets helping film new baseball movie \u2018The Comebacker\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 06: A general view of the outside of the Citi Field prior to the game between the New York Yankees and the New York Mets at Citi Field on July 06, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Justin Casterline\/Getty Images)\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/F2OJ3I23XBE2ZLZ7J4QVZ4RXB4.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>MLB and the Mets are \u201cinvolved\u201d in the making of a new movie, \u201cThe Comebacker,\u201d a baseball drama Marielle Heller is directing for Sony Pictures. Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">MLB and the Mets are \u201cinvolved\u201d in the making of a new movie, \u201cThe Comebacker,\u201d a baseball drama Marielle Heller is directing for Sony Pictures, according to Borys Kit of the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. Actor Sterling K. Brown is joining Tom Hanks and Callum Turner along with Patricia Clarkson and Amy Madigan \u201cin the dugout for what is being described as a love letter to baseball\u201d that is based on a short story by Dave Eggers. Heller wrote the script for adaptation, which \u201ctells of the relationship between a pitching coach (Hanks) for the New York Mets and his pitcher (Turner) who gets hit by a line drive while on the mound.\u201d Madigan is the owner of the team while Clarkson is the coach\u2019s wife. Brown will play the manager of the team. Working Barn will executive produce along with Charles Miller (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/sterling-k-brown-joins-the-comebacker-1236725529\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, 10\/8<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MLB and the Mets are \u201cinvolved\u201d in the making of a new movie, \u201cThe Comebacker,\u201d a baseball drama&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1558,88,363,99],"class_list":["post-876480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-entertainment","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}