In “Script to Screen,” a University of California television program that he appeared years later, Robinson says the only tweaking he did was to have the character of Terrence Mann (James Earl Jones) enter the cornfield before the big reveal, namely, the discovery with five minutes left in the picture that the ghost team’s catcher is Kevin Costner’s father. I don’t see how Phil Robinson could have done a better job of successfully transferring one to the other.”
In a 2014 column he wrote for ESPN, Kinsella noted that “novels and movies are entirely different art forms. Kinsella himself loved how Robinson adapted his story. Kinsella book Shoeless Joe, and was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay by director-writer Phil Alden Robinson. Filled with memorable dialogue-“Is this heaven? No, it’s Iowa,” or “Hey Dad, you wanna have a catch?” are just two of the most-oft quoted lines-the film is based on the 1982 W.P. Set to celebrate its 30th anniversary next year, Field of Dreams is widely viewed as a timeless classic. Literary license, you say? You don’t know the half of it. You even know that when Graham got into his one and only game for the New York Giants, it wasn’t the last game of the season, as Burt Lancaster says, but rather a game played on June 29, 1905. Okay, so you know that the real Archie “Moonlight” Graham died in 1965-making it impossible for Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) to time warp to 1972, when he encounters Doc Graham a block after a movie theater showing The Godfather. And that he was semi-illiterate, rather than the raconteur Liotta played him as. Okay, so you know the real “Shoeless” Joe Jackson batted lefty and threw righty, but that Ray Liotta bats right-handed and throws with his left in Field of Dreams.
Moonlight Graham courtesy of artist Graig Kreindler
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