The Dreyfus Affair
Potential Cast: Ben Affleck and Don Cheadle

Now that Brokeback Mountain has brought cowboys out of the closet, it finally might be time for a studio to take The Dreyfus Affair out of its closet as well. Everyone from Barbra Streisand to Nancy Drew helmer Andrew Fleming has wanted to direct an adaptation of Peter Lefcourt's satire about the national pastime turning into a national identity crisis when two baseball teammates round third base with each other. During the film's pre-production at Disney, Garth Brooks caused a stir when he took an interest to star in the film, if only the main character Randy wasn't gay. Ben Affleck and Don Cheadle would get as close as anyone to actually making the film in the late 1990s, with New Line for Dr. Doolittle director Betty Thomas. But as Lefcourt recently said in a panel discussion, one of the stars bowed out when a studio head told him his career wouldn't recover from playing a gay character on screen.

Project Status: Thanks to the Brokeback effect, Lefcourt is once again inching towards the plate with another adaptation.

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