Posted on 11/29/2007 1:20:17 PM PST by Zakeet
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) HBO Films is planning to turn a best selling book about Barry Bonds' alleged steroid use and the federal government's wide-ranging probe into performance enhancing drug use in sports into a movie, one of the book's authors said Thursday.
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The planned movie based on the book "Game of Shadows" was first reported Wednesday by Variety.
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Much of the book was based on secret grand jury testimony of Bonds and other famous athletes leaked to them by Troy Ellerman, a disbarred attorney sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for denying under oath he was the reporters' source.
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Of course, in keeping with long time Hollywierd policy, the movie will be done in good
taste and will carry an important character-building message for America's youth.
Working titles for the movie:
“Roid Rage”
“The (un)Real Thing”
“Denial Ain’t Just a River in Egypt”
“A Different Kind of ‘Roid’”
“Pants on Fire”
They might need Cinemascope to capture that head.
When I was a kid I lived on the same street as Barry Bonds. We all thought it was weird that he was 9 years old 3 years in a row, which is what his dad Bobbie did in order to get him into Little League early.
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