http://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/bill ... flick/amp/

Talk about perfect casting! No deal is set, but Deadline.com reports that Wilmette’s own Bill Murray — well-known for his love of the Cubs — is negotiating to play Cubs manager Joe Maddon in a proposed film about the North Siders’ World Series win last year, the team’s first since 1908.

Already on board is Australian director Shane Abbess, who is best known for his sci-fi films including “Gabriel” but happens to be a huge fan of American baseball.

Titled “Teammate,” the movie will focus on last year’s memorable march to the long elusive championship by the team long dubbed Major League Baseball’s “Lovable Losers.” The film will be produced by former Chicagoan Ted Field, a member of the Marshall Field family that long owned the Sun-Times.

The screenplay will be based on the book penned by retired Cubs catcher David Ross and Don Yaeger: “Teammate: My Journey in Baseball and a World Series for the Ages.” Ross played for the Cubs for two seasons, finally reaching that magic moment when the team beat the Cleveland Indians in that rain-delayed, 10-inning Game 7.

Too soon.

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kill everyone involved. maybe their families too.

Even the Red Sox think this is a little much.

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Sox fan heads are gonna explode over this.

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Honest question, will you tell us when it's finally ok to think "Wow, this is going too far?".

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I think it's absurd. I'm just gonna laugh when your heads explode. Kinda like Trump and the Left.

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Well Rick, us Sox fans kinda knew this would happen if they ever won. Not much we can do now except wait for our next one.

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Supporting cast... Eddie Vedder, John Cusack, Jim Belushi, Jeff Garlin, Helen Hunt...

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Cameo by Ross...

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Ross is going to shave his head and play Kaplan.

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That's fair.

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No one is more fair than me (sic).

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When they surpass the 85 Bears, you have my permission to whine

Did they get a movie?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Worse. WrestleMania 2 which was the biggest extravaganza in the history of wrestling at the time.

Somewhere is an interview with Robert Smigel discussing details about a SNL Superfans movie that was in the works and actually written but never came to light.

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

The Subdivision appears up in arms over this...corny..but not as bad as Craft Beer Night.

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The prospects of this happening are so small even John Murray can't get himself to think it's gonna happen.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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Gotta get Bob Odenkirk involved somewhere.

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