Jason Bateman has got a new gig coming down the pipe where he’ll both direct and star. The show is called ‘Daddy Ball’ and it comes from an Esquire article of the same name.
In the article surrounds dads with sons in youth sports and especially two fathers, both with complicated pasts, who 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.
Netflix will be the lucky streamer showing the final project, but there’s no production date established yet. Shouldn’t take too long though. No SFX to deal with in post.