These are heady days for cricket. England's triumph in the Ashes was overseen by increasingly high-end celebrity cognoscenti, with both Lily Allen and Russell Crowe putting in appearances at the BBC's Test Match Special commentary box. Plus, this week Sam Mendes announced that he will be adapting Joseph O'Neill's novel Netherland, a story about cricketing expats in New York, into a major film. A century after its first great golden age, the most sedentary, self-deprecating and immovably weather-bound of summer sports is about to go Hollywood. But does cricket really have a big-screen future? And if so, what kind of scripts can we expect to see punted about in the next few months?
Thursday, February 18, 2010
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