Baseball movies are almost as loved as the actual sport in America, with the likes of Field of Dreams, A League of their Own, Bull Durham, and eh, Rookie of the Year, all still popular with the bat-swinging American public. There was such a film in 1989 that hit big, released a couple of shit sequels, and is now rarely heard from, Major League.
Actually a lot of fun, it starred Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger and Wesley Snipes as part of a team of no-hopers, tasked with taking their inherently shit team, The Cleveland Indians, to The World Series. It was generally a good laugh, until they made crap sequels, of which now they're apparently planning to do another - with now mega TV star, Charlie Sheen, on board. That films writer/director writer/director David S.Ward told Moviehole: "We're actually talking about doing one right now. I've written, what I see, as Major League 3. We're putting that together as we speak - in fact, next week I'm off to talk to James Robinson at Morgan Creek about it. It's 20 years later, and Wild Thing (Sheen's character) comes out of retirement to work with this 19-year-old player. We've actually got three new characters in the new film. And if the new film is popular, they could carry the franchise on."
Sheen is a known baseball fanatic, and would probably do it just to piss around playing the game and getting paid for it during the summer. He hardly needs the money though; a recent article in Variety had his wages pegged at around $1.8 million AN EPISODE for Two and a Half Men. That's a lot of hookers, even classy ones.
