The Pitcher Signs with Gigantic Pictures
Novelist William Hazelgrove has signed with veteran producer Ed Bates of Gigantic Pictures to produce his Award Winning novel,The Pitcher. The story of a broken down World Series Pitcher who coaches.
Los Angeles, CA, May 20, 2014 -- Novelist William Hazelgrove www.williamhazelgrove.com has teamed up with veteran producers Edward Bates and Rochelle Bates of Gigantic Pictures (www.gigantic-pictures.com) for a film adaptation of his award-winning novel, THE PITCHER.http://www.amazon.com/Pitcher-William-Hazelgrove-ebook/dp/B00JMYIVWO/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=
The story of a broken-down World Series pitcher and a Latino boy with a golden arm and the dream of playing baseball took Bates by surprise: "This book really made me feel something...I wanted to get a screenplay written as soon as possible."
Ed Bates, producer of such movies as KINGDOM COME and THE LAST TIME I COMMITTED SUICIDE, and the television mini-series FALLEN, is excited by the project. Bates said, "It’s the ROCKY of baseball movies."
THE PITCHER by best-selling novelist William Hazelgrove was published last year, and was immediately picked as a Junior Library Guild Selection. Hazelgrove's sixth novel, REAL SANTA, is due out in fall, 2014.
Contact:
William Hazelgrove
WilliamHazelgrove.com
39w 118 Crescent Lane
St. Charles, IL 60175
708-466-7601
[email protected]
http://www.williamhazelgrove.com
The story of a broken-down World Series pitcher and a Latino boy with a golden arm and the dream of playing baseball took Bates by surprise: "This book really made me feel something...I wanted to get a screenplay written as soon as possible."
Ed Bates, producer of such movies as KINGDOM COME and THE LAST TIME I COMMITTED SUICIDE, and the television mini-series FALLEN, is excited by the project. Bates said, "It’s the ROCKY of baseball movies."
THE PITCHER by best-selling novelist William Hazelgrove was published last year, and was immediately picked as a Junior Library Guild Selection. Hazelgrove's sixth novel, REAL SANTA, is due out in fall, 2014.
Contact:
William Hazelgrove
WilliamHazelgrove.com
39w 118 Crescent Lane
St. Charles, IL 60175
708-466-7601
[email protected]
http://www.williamhazelgrove.com
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