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It's July, and baseball season is in full swing, with the All-Star Game looming on the horizon. Combine that with the Fourth of July weekend, and viewers across America have decided that it's the perfect time to catch The Sandlot. The coming-of-age baseball classic is climbing up the streaming standings this week, and is currently the fifth-most-popular streaming movie on Disney+.

Part of a wave of baseball comedies that hit in the wake of the 1989 hit Major League – including Angels in the Outfield, Little Big League, and Rookie of the Year – The Sandlot was written, directed, and narrated by David Mickey Evans. It was the most successful of the lot, grossing $34 million Usd, and was also well-reviewed, currently holding a 66% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In a retrospective review, Collider's Chase Hutchinson calls it "tightly written and sharply funny as it paints a portrait of youth that is sentimental without ever being superficial.

The classic sports adventure movie, The Sandlot,is currently trending on streaming an astonishing 32 years after it was released. The Sandlot is an American coming-of-age sports comedy which was co-written, directed, and narrated by David Mickey Evans. The 1993 movie followed Scotty Smalls (Tom Guiry) as he befriends a group of young baseball players during the summer of 1962.

The great baseball movie grossed $34.3 million at the box office worldwide, and starred Denis Leary and James Earl Jones in minor roles. Despite the movie’s somewhat indie premise, The Sandlot has become a bit of a cult hit over the years, with many looking back on it fondly, cementing its status as one of the best teen summer movies.

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According to FlixPatrol, The Sandlot is currently trending on Disney+, despite being released over three decades ago.

Few movies have the nostalgic value that The Sandlothas. The 1993 sports comedy is a feel-good adventure that hasn't lost the capacity to make you laugh and reminisce about your own childhood. Squints getting to kiss Wendy Peffercorn, the lights of the carnival tuned to Ray Charles' "America the Beautiful," and finding a very valuable baseball autographed by legends. The Sandlot is a good family film because it makes everyone in the family feel good. However, according to star Patrick Renna, it appears that things weren't so PG-13-like behind the camera.

Renna, who plays Ham (the boy who loves to do cannonballs) in the film, spoke to People magazine about The Sandlot as he promotes his debut children's book, A Little Slugger's Guide to the Unwritten Rules of Baseball and Life. Although we can imagine that gathering a group of young teens for a movie shoot, and keeping everything in order,...

The Sandlot, the sports comedy classic that reminded everyone not to mess with highly valued baseball items, has become a streaming hit. The iconic 1993 film has climbed up the charts of the free streaming service Tubi, and by the time of writing, it sits on the second spot in the top 10 list of the platform's most popular movies.

Directed by David Mickey Evans, The Sandlot follows a group of young baseball fans in the summer of 1962 in the San Fernando Valley. Scott Smalls is the new kid in town, and although his stepfather likes baseball, Scott hasn't exactly acquired the ability to play ball. The boy finds a sandlot where some kids meet daily to play baseball, but on the first attempt to make friends, things don't go great. However, with the guidance of the team leader, Benny Rodriguez, Smalls becomes part of the gang.

Summer is going great until they run out of balls.

Play ball! The cast of The Sandlot took to the diamond once more for a charity softball game. Coming as part of a two-day event, the game took place in Edgeater, Florida, near where the classic film’s director/writer/narrator David Mickey Evans calls home.

Few casts of coming-of-age classics are as close-knit as the Sandlot crew. Known for their frequent dinner gatherings, the actors spent much of 2023 together as they marked the film’s 30th anniversary. There were TV appearances, special screenings, and they even took the field at a real MLB stadium. As TMZ reports, the year-long celebration was capped off with the December 15th-16th event.

Marty “Yeah-Yeah” York, Tom “Smalls” Guiry, Victor “Timmy Timmons” Dimattia, Shane “Tommy ‘Repeat’ Timmons” Obedzinski, and Grant “Weeks” Gelt were all on hand for the gathering, as was Evans himself. In addition to the big game, there were screenings, meet-and-greets,...

The Sandlot is a beloved movie from the 90s that has unforgettable quotes and memorable characters. The film captures a different time and place, where kids played baseball in the local lot without cell phones or social media. The movie emphasizes friendship, fun, and the love of baseball, showing that it's not always about competition or winning.

Kids of the 1990s know that The Sandlot is endlessly quotable, and the best Sandlot quotes are recognizable even when someone hasn’t seen the movie in a while. The first movie was so successful and beloved that it spawned a sequel nearly a decade after the original, and even got a time-traveling third adventure for those who love their neighborhood baseball games. There’s even been talk of a series inspired by the original movie, though it hasn’t moved beyond the development stage.

The Sandlot follows a group of boys who...

As the sunniest season comes to a close and school is back in session, it can be difficult to say goodbye to all the freedoms that summer break has to offer. And for those who have graduated from the educational era of their lives, it can feel a bit nostalgic to remember those youthful days back when the biggest decisions in life were based around what summery activities were on the agenda for the day. While it is impossible to travel back in time to relive those magical moments from the early years of life, there are many movies that serve as sentimental reminders of summer days from the past. One of the films that, even 30 years after its release, still steps up to the plate in this regard is The Sandlot.

Set in 1962, The Sandlot, written and directed by David Mickey Evans, is a time capsule of an American...

Mike Vitar played the legendary Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez in the 1993 cult classic The Sandlot, but his role was recast in the movie's two direct-to-video sequels. While the first sequel, The Sandlot 2, focused on an entirely new cast of characters, the third movie in the franchise heavily featured the Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez character, who acted as the coach of the Sandlot team featured in the movie. Chauncey Leopardi, who played Michael "Squints" Palledorous, reprised his role in The Sandlot: Heading Home, but Vitar was replaced by actor Danny Nucci.

The Sandlot was generally well-received by critics, and has gained notoriety as a cult classic and coming-of-age movie. The direct-to-video sequels garnered much less favorable reviews, which isn't surprising given how far removed The Sandlot 2 was from the original. As a legacy sequel, some of the original characters returned for The Sandlot: Heading Home (and it did have a lot more potential). However,...

There's a very high chance you remember the first time you saw your favorite movie. It doesn't necessarily have to be the best movie you ever saw, but the one you keep coming back to because you love the way it makes you feel and the memory you have of when you first saw it. For many, that film has to be The Sandlot.

Released in 1993, and dominating the HBO rerun capacity for a great part of the '90s, The Sandlot became the perfect comfortable film that you always ended up seeing if you caught it on TV. The misadventures of a baseball team in 1962 as they try to recover a legendary ball from the claws of a monster, is the story behind one of the best sports movies of all time.

Yes, that film, your favorite, is being heralded as a modern classic. Why? We're pretty sure everyone's got their reason,...

The 1993 film, The Sandlot, has become a cult classic since its initial release, with its inspiring baseball story causing speculation about whether the film is based on real life. The Sandlot follows the escapades of Scott Smalls as hew tries to fit in after moving to a new town, which he accomplished by playing baseball with the local kids. Set in the summer of 1962, the boys spend their days playing baseball, discussing Babe Ruth, and attempting to recover a signed ball from a dog-guarded yard. The film was written and directed by David Mickey Evans, who also narrates the film as adult Smalls.

In addition to featuring numerous references to real icon Babe Ruth, a twist about a character being a former professional player, and a flash-forward to Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers, The Sandlot certainly feels like a real story as it follows Scott's coming of age story.

If you grew up in the nineties, you undoubtedly grew up a massive fan of The Sandlot. A coming-of-age story centering around a group of baseball-loving kids who hang out every day in a Sandlot, the movie didn’t make much of a peep in theatres back in 1993. However, the box office didn’t tell the whole story, with the movie becoming a cult film on VHS, cable and later DVD, with writer-director David Mickey Evans eventually returning to make a Dtv spin-off, The Sandlot 2, while a prequel is still in development.

But what happened to all of the kids in The Sandlot? Unlike a movie like Stand by Me, there were no megastars like River Phoenix to emerge, but the cast still fared well in the years to come. Many have gone on to everyday lives, while others continue to work (successfully) in showbiz almost 30 years later. In this...

The Great Bambino would be proud, as The Sandlot is trending on social media with fans celebrating the movie on its 28th anniversary. For those who remember watching the popular movie when it first premiered in theaters, it may not seem like it's already been almost three decades. All of these years later, it's clear from looking at social media that people still love The Sandlot now more than ever.

"Heroes get remembered, but legends never die," reads a tweet posted by ESPN with an image of The Sandlot cast, including a quote from the movie.

"Heroes get remembered, but legends never die."

28 years ago today, The Sandlot hit theaters ⚾ pic.twitter.com/1lkOtnUM5O

— ESPN (@espn) April 7, 2021

Talk of The Sandlot has also led to fan discussions over if it's really the best baseball movie of all time. One fan responded to this question by saying, "the sandlot is...

Ugly Betty‘s sisters are going head-to-head: Ana Ortiz will reunite with her TV sibling America Ferrera on the latter’s NBC comedy Superstore.

Per Give Me My Remote, Ortiz will guest-star in a May episode as Claudia Lankow, a no-nonsense senior vice president of operations at Cloud 9. She holds the fate of the Ozark Highlands store, where Ferrera’s Amy is now the manager, in her hands.

Ortiz — who currently co-stars in ABC’s Whiskey Cavalier — is the second Ugly Betty alum to visit the show after Tony Plana, who is set to return later this season as Amy’s father.

About a month ago The Sandlot co-writer and director David Mickey Evans announced that he was developing a sequel series that would bring back the original cast. One of the thngs he said at the time was that he sold his pitch to a streaming service. We now know that streaming service is Disney+!

The filmmaker revealed that the story would take place in 1984 and all of the characters will be adults with kids of their own. The ending of the original film offered a breakdown of what happened to all the kids when they grew up, but this series will obviously explore that a lot further.

The original cast for the series included Mike Vitar (Benjamin “Benny” Franklin Rodriguez), Patrick Renna (Hamilton “Ham” Porter), Chauncey Leopardi (Michael “Squints” Palledorous), Victor Dimattia (Timmy Timmons), Marty York (Alan “Yeah-Yeah” McClennan), Shane Obedzinski (Tommy “Repeat” Timmons), Grant Gelt (Bertram Grover Weeks), and...

The Sandlot arrived right at the height of my Baseball-mania, during a time where every spare moment was spent practicing throwing, hitting, and catching. Although it's been quite some time since I last watched it, The Sandlot still holds a special place in my heart, but is that place large enough for a Sandlot TV series? David Mickey Evans, director and co-writer of the original film,…...

Disney+ is priming The Sandlot for its streaming service, with the 1993 movie’s original director and co-writer David Mickey Evans attached to write and executive produce.

Deadline hears the series is in early development. The Sandlot is the second 20th Century Fox-related IP announced today to be developed for Disney’s streaming service. Earlier today, a Love, Simon TV series based on Greg Berlanti’s movie from last year was announced for Disney+ with This Is Us executive producers/co-showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, who wrote the movie, writing/executive producing via their overall deal at 20th Century Fox TV.

The Sandlot series will be set in 1984, when the original cast are adults and they all have children of their own. The streaming series will be separate from the The Sandlot prequel film which Evans is writing with Austin Reynolds, which is to take place in the 1950s.

Disney+ is developing a TV series based on “The Sandlot,” Variety has learned.

David Mickey Evans, the co-writer and director of the 1993 film, is attached to write and executive produce the series. It is said to take in 1984 and would focus on the children of the original characters.

The first “Sandlot” film took place in the summer of 1962 and followed a group of friends who spent their days playing baseball while also dealing with a menacing dog that lived next to the titular sandlot that they referred to as The Beast. The film starred Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Karen Allen, Denis Leary, James Earl Jones, Patrick Renna, Chauncey Leopardi, Marty York, Brandon Quintin Adams, Grant Gelt, Shane Obedzinski, and Victor Dimattia. It grossed just over $33 million at the box office and has gone on to become a cult classic. Two direct-to-video sequels were produced in 2005 and 2007.

In an interview earlier...

The Sandlot is the latest Disney-owned property to get the reboot treatment for the media behemoth's upcoming direct-to-consumer streaming platform. 

Original screenwriter David Mickey Evans is behind the reboot, which will focus on the children of the original characters featured in the 1993 film of the same name. (It's unclear if The Beast's offspring will also be included.) Sources say all of the original cast is returning for the Disney+ revival. 

"I just sold a Sandlot television show. We're about to get an order for the first two seasons," Evans told host Cooperstown ...

Are you ready to go back to The Sandlot? After 25 years, the original cast is returning at the direction of David Mickey Evans for a TV series. Evans wrote and directed the first two Sandlot movies, and according to The Hollywood Reporter, he's ready to bring the boys together for at least two seasons on an unnamed streaming service.

"I already got all the original cast members back," Evans said on The Rain Delay podcast, although he did not name the exact actors participating. "It takes place in 1984, when they're all like 33 years old and they all have children of their own, and that's all I can tell you."

This will be a jump forward from the original film, which was set in San Fernando Valley in 1962. If it's true that all the original cast members are returning, we can look forward to appearances from Scotty Smalls (Tom Guiry), Hamilton...

The Sandlot—the nostalgia you feel just reading that title is real—and director David Mickey Evans knows that, which is why he's working on a sequel TV series. In an interview on The Rain Delay podcast, Evans said he "just sold" a Sandlot TV show. "We're about to get an order for the first two seasons," Evans said. He said the show has a streaming home—won't say where—but, "I already got all of the original cast members back," he teased. "Ok, it takes place in 1984 when they're all like 33 years old and they all have children of their own. And that's all I can tell you," he said. Before you break out the ball and glove in...

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The Sandlot writer-director David Mickey Evans has revealed that he's sold a Sandlot TV show to an unnamed streaming service.

You're killing me...TV reboots of beloved '90s films!

An unnamed streaming service has ordered two seasons of a TV reboot for The Sandlot, starring the original cast. The source of this news is pretty rock solid considering that it comes directly from original Sandlot writer-director, David Mickey Evans. 

Evans made the announcement on baseball podcast The Rain Delay on Thursday. 

"I just sold a Sandlot television show," Evans told podcast host "Cooperstown" Kurt Lawson. "We're about to get an order for the first two seasons. I know who's going to stream it. It doesn't take a genius to figure that out right now."

Doesn't take a genius to figure that out? So...Netflix? There are really only three major options at the moment: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video,...

The original Sandlot crew is prepping to play some more ball, according to the writer-director of the first two movies.

A TV reboot is in the works with the cast of the first film returning, David Mickey Evans on Thursday told the baseball podcast The Rain Delay.

"I just sold a Sandlot television show. We're about to get an order for the first two seasons," he told host Cooperstown Kurt. Evans said he couldn't tell Kurt who was going to stream it, but "I know who's going to stream it. It doesn't take a genius to ...

For baseball fans of a certain age, “The Sandlot” is one of the pivotal screen stories about America’s pastime. Set in the 1950s, it follows one kid’s quest to ingratiate himself with the local group of ragtag ballplayers and their attempts to rescue a precious autographed Babe Ruth ball.

Now, a quarter century later, writer and director David Mickey Evans said that a TV show following those same characters is in the works.

“I already got all the original cast members back. It takes place in 1984, when they’re all like 33 years old and they all have children of their own,” Evans said on The Rain Delay podcast.

Presumably this doesn’t include all the original cast, since as we all know, Bertram got really into the ’60s and no one ever saw him again. But this bodes well for fans curious about the Timmons brothers’ burgeoning mini-mall...

In a move no one is asking for, not only will be getting a Sandlot sequel series.

It was reported back in August that a prequel to the classic baseball film The Sandlot is on the way. Now, according to the original director, David Mickey Evans a sequel series is heading our way, and is in full swing already. Evans was recently on the recently revealed the on Cooperstown Kurt’s baseball podcast The Rain Delay, that he has sold a pitch for a television series sequel to the original movie.

But the news didn’t stop there. He also announced that the series would bring back the entire original cast of the film, it will take place in 1984, the boys are all now around 33 years old, and each of them have kids of their own.

It also looks as the series has a home already, on an unspecified streaming service.

Is The Sandlot coming to the small screen. According to SlashFilm, the film's director David Mickey Evans has a TV show in the works.

The 1993 film follows a group of friends who play baseball and come of age during the summer of 1962. The cast includes Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Patrick Renna, Chauncey Leopardi, Marty York, and James Earl Jones.

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One of my favorite baseball movies of all time is easily The Sandlot. That was such a wonderfully fantastic film that connected with a lot of kids growing up in the 90s. It’s a classic and now that classic movie is getting a sequel series that will bring back the original cast!

There have been sequels in the past already, but none of them have been able to capture the magic of that original film. Hopefully, this sequel will change that.

The director of the original film David Mickey Evans recently announced on the baseball podcast The Rain Delay, that he sold the pitch for the TV series to a streaming service that he didn’t reveal. Also, the series has already been picked up for two seasons!

The original cast for the series included Mike Vitar (Benjamin “Benny” Franklin Rodriguez), Patrick Renna (Hamilton “Ham” Porter), Chauncey Leopardi (Michael...

Batter up folks, we're heading back to the sandlot! 20th Century Fox is currently at work on a prequel to the classic 1993 film The Sandlot. The original writer and director, David Mickey Evans, is coming back to cowrite the script with newcomer Austin Reynolds. Deadline first broke the news and reported that though the plot details are still unknown, the story is said to involve the legend of "The Beast," the giant English mastiff that terrifies all the kids in the neighborhood.

The cult classic recently celebrated its 25th anniversary with a special cast reunion and a two-day return to theaters. The heartwarming comedy is set in 1962 and tells the story of Scotty Smalls (Tom Guiry) who moves to a new neighborhood and is taken under the wing of local baseball superstar Benny Rodriguez (Mike Vitar). Scotty joins Benny's group of friends who form an entire baseball team including Hamilton...

Since the people at Fox are bored waiting on the deal with Disney to finish, they have decided to look at giving us a Prequel to one of the most beloved basball films of all time.

It never fails. Just when you think Hollywood has already spit out the dumbbest possible ideas, they go ahead and come up with something even worse. This time, since they have nothing better to do, Fox has decided what the world needs is a prequel to The Sandlot. How is that even possible?!

The Sandlot is a classic film about 9 kids that came together one summer to defeat the beast, to save a baseball signed by The Sultan of Swat himself. The movie itself is a prequel, to children's summers all over America! What is there we need to know about these kids before that fateful summer. Until this point in their lives all there was,...

Legends never die: 20th Century Fox is currently in development on a Sandlot Prequel, which, for a generation of kids who grew up in the 90s, may just be the greatest baseball movie ever made. David M. Evans, who wrote and directed the original movie, is on board to help develop the project and pen the screenplay for Fox. Evans will be working alongside writer Austin Reynolds on the script.

Unfortunately, there are no story details available right now but this will take place prior to the events of the original movie, which took place in 1962 and centered on a young group of kids who lived to play baseball. A young kid moves to town named Scott Smalls and befriends The Sandlot gang, who teach him about the sport they love so dearly. Things get tricky when they lose Smalls' stepfather's ball that is signed by Babe Ruth to The Beast,...

If you're a fan of The Sandlot, you might be happy to hear that 20th Century Fox is developing a prequel to the film. They've also brought on the original film's writer and director, David Mickey Evans, to co-write the script with Austin Reynolds.

The news comes during the film's 25th anniversary. All of these movie anniversary milestones are really starting to make me feel old. I remember going to see The Sandlot when it first came out. It's just such a fun story with great characters that you can't help but love!

There aren't a lot of details on the film’s plot, but according to Deadline, it involves the legend of The Beast. I guess if there's going to make a prequel to The Sandlot, the legend of The Beast is a good place to start! For those of you who need a reminder of The Beast, Squints...

As the Babe says in childhood classic, The Sandlot, “Remember kid, there’s heroes and there’s legends — heroes get remembered, but legends never die.”

And the legend is back as fans of the iconic baseball film will get to watch the backstory of The Sandlot unfold in a prequel that is currently in the early stages of development at Twentieth Century Fox, according to Entertainment Weekly.

The original screenwriter and director of the 1993 film, David Mickey Evans, is returning to co-write the script, Deadline reported. While plot details are pretty sparse, it’s likely the prequel could tell the...

On this episode of Collider Movie Talk Mark Ellis, Jeff Sneider, and John Rocha discuss the following: Deadline reports that Fox is developing a prequel to the 1993 film The Sandlot, with David Mickey Evans, the original’s writer and director, attached to co-write the script. MoviePass announced major changes to its service including a monthly price increase and limited availability to customers of first run movies opening on 1,000+ screens in the first two weeks. Exclusive: Collider's Jeff Sneider is reporting that WB is making a Super Pets movie starring the comic …...

There's even more good news out there for fans of The Sandlot. Multiple outlets are reporting that writer and director David Mickey Evans is working on a prequel and will reportedly have a focal point surrounding the infamous legend of "The Beast." Austin Reynolds has been tapped as a writer for the script alongside Evans. The storied film just celebrated its 25th anniversary and was shown in select theaters around the country. The movie, which takes place in the summer of 1962, tells the story of new-kid-on-the-block Scotty Smalls and his adventures—both on and off the sandlot playing baseball—with his peers. The prequel follows two other iterations of...

Now you're really killing me, Smalls. The Sandlot celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary earlier this year and it seems that 20th Century Fox is hoping that we'll be down for more of the cult coming-of-age sports comedy...in the form of a prequel. What? Deadline has reported that the studio is in early development on a prequel to The Sandlot and that David Mickey Evans, writer and director... Read More...

20th Century Fox is in the early stages of developing a prequel to the 1993 baseball comedy “The Sandlot” with the original director and writer David Mickey Evans scripting the project along with Austin Reynolds.

The studio is keeping the logline on the prequel under wraps. “The Sandlot” was re-released on Blu-ray and Digital HD on March 27 as part of the film’s 25th anniversary and the cast re-united on “The Today Show” and at Dodger Stadium.

The original film was set in Los Angeles during the summer of 1962, pivoting off an adolescent boy named Scott Smalls seeking to fit into a new neighborhood and trying to play on a sandlot baseball team — even though he can’t play. After being humiliated, Smalls is taught how to play by the team leader Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez, and joins the team. The boys have to deal with losing a ball autographed by...

While other PG baseball movies from the 90s have fallen by the wayside, The Sandlot has retained a devoted fanbase over the past 25 years. And while the kids sports movie as a whole has kind of died off, it looks like 20th Century Fox thinks that a new generation might be interested in the franchise. Deadline reports that David Mickey Evans, who wrote and directed the original Sandlot, is attached to co-write the script with Austin Reynolds. “Details on the film’s plot are under wraps but I hear it involves the legend of the beast from the …...

Exclusive: 20th Century Fox is in early development on a prequel to the 1993 cult classic The Sandlot, with David Mickey Evans, the original’s writer and director, attached to co-write the script with Austin Reynolds. Details on the film’s plot are under wraps, but I hear it involves the legend of the beast from the first iteration.

The news comes as the film recently hit the 25-year mark since its release. Set in 1962, the coming-of-age comedy centered on Scottie Smalls (Tom Guiry) who, after moving to a new neighborhood, befriends a group of boys who play baseball at the sandlot and get into a series of touching adventures.

It also starred Mike Vitar (Benjamin “Benny” Franklin Rodriguez), Patrick Renna (Hamilton “Ham” Porter), Chauncey Leopardi (Michael “Squints” Palledorous), Victor Dimattia (Timmy Timmons), Marty York (Alan “Yeah-Yeah” McClennan), Shane Obedzinski (Tommy “Repeat” Timmons), Grant Gelt (Bertram Grover Weeks), Brandon Quintin Adams...

A prequel for The Sandlot, the iconic 1993 baseball pic that followed the antics of a crew of kids who accidentally sacrifice a Babe Ruth-signed baseball to the neighborhood dog, is in the works at 20th Century Fox, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The project, now in advanced development at the studio, will be penned by the original director and writer, David Mickey Evans, and new writer Austin Reynolds. Plans for a prequel come on the heels of the baseball film's 25th anniversary.

The Sandlot starred mainly children, including Tom Guiry (who played Scotty Smalls), Chauncey Leopardi (Michael "Squints" Palledorous),...

A prequel for The Sandlot, the iconic 1993 baseball pic that followed the antics of a crew of kids who accidentally sacrifice a Babe Ruth-signed baseball to the neighborhood dog, is in the works at 20th Century Fox, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The project, now in advanced development at the studio, will be penned by the original director and writer, David Mickey Evans, and new writer Austin Reynolds. Plans for a prequel come on the heels of the baseball film's 25th anniversary.

The Sandlot starred mainly children, including Tom Guiry (who played Scotty Smalls), Chauncey Leopardi (Michael "Squints" Palledorous),...

The cast of The Sandlot is celebrating the iconic’s film 25th anniversary this year — and now they have a funny story to commemorate the milestone!

Stars Patrick Renna and Tom Guiry, aka Ham and Smalls, ran into a person wearing a t-shirt featuring the movie’s most famous line — “You’re killing me smalls.” Much to their surprise, the person didn’t even recognize them.

“Said nice shirt to this dude walking by us and he had no idea what we were talking about. Thought I would capture the moment,” Renna tweeted.

Said nice shirt to this dude walking...

The Sandlot is already 25 years old? You’re killing me, Smalls!

It’s hard to believe that the beloved coming-of-age baseball classic is two and a half decades old, but to celebrate the occasion, the film is coming back to select theaters and People sat down with the cast to reminisce about making the film and what the former child actors are up to now.

Tom Guiry (Scotty Smalls)

Guiry, 36, made his big screen debut as the film’s greenest ball player, Scotty Smalls. He’s had small roles in TV and film (like: Lassie, Black Hawk Down, Mystic River,...

Calling all '90s kids: get excited, because The Sandlot is returning to a big screen near you for its 25th anniversary! Fathom Events and Twentieth Century Fox are bringing the 1993 coming-of-age baseball comedy back to theaters for two days only: July 22 and 24. Tickets officially go on sale on June 22 on Fathom Events, and now is your chance to relive all the magic. The screenings will also feature an exclusive sneak preview of an upcoming Fox Sports documentary about the making of the film.

Related: 23 Life Lessons From The Sandlot That Still Hold Up Today

The David Mickey Evans-directed cult classic was released in 1993 but is set in 1962. Not only is it often referred to as one of the best baseball movies of all time, but it also centers on a boy named Scotty Smalls (Tom Guiry) who moves to a new town and is taken under the wing...

Twenty-five years since its initial release, The Sandlot has become almost as legendary as “The Great Bambino” himself — and this summer, for the first time since its initial release 25 years ago, it’s going to be back on the silver screen in theaters nationwide for two days only: July 22nd and 24th.

Play ball! The legendary baseball comedy “The Sandlot” is back in movie theaters across the country for two days only this July – its first national theatrical run since its original release 25 years ago. The film will play with an exclusive sneak preview of an all-new Fox Sports documentary about the making of this coming-of-age comedy.

Tickets for “The Sandlot” can be purchased beginning Friday, June 22, at www.FathomEvents.com and participating theater box offices.

Fathom Events and Twentieth Century Fox, in association with Island World, present “The Sandlot” in hundreds of select movie theaters on Sunday, July 22, at 1:00 p.

It's hard to believe, but The Sandlot is now 25 years old. The movie has become a timeless family classic that more than likely gets played once a year, right when baseball season starts. And to celebrate the 25th anniversary, the original cast reunited to play some baseball and give a brief interview about the lasting popularity of the movie. Marty York (Alan "Yeah Yeah" McClennan), Tom Guiry (Scotty Smalls), Brandon Quintin Adams (Kenny DeNunez), Shane Obedzinski (Timmy Timmons), Victor Dimattia (Tommy Repeat), Chauncey Leopardi (Michael "Squints" Palledorous), Patrick Renna (Hamilton "Ham" Porter), and the film's director David Mickey Evans all got together, though Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez actor Mike Vitar couldn't make it.

Marty York, who played Yeah Yeah in The Sandlot was the first one of the group to talk about the perks of being in the iconic movie. Even after 25 years, the cast is still very recognizable. Though...

The Sandlot kids are all grown up!

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Sandlot, most of the film’s formerly pint-sized stars reunited on the Today Show to talk about how the movie has impacted their lives.

“It’s been crazy. I mean, [it] definitely gets you in places for free,” Marty York, who played Alan ‘Yeah Yeah’ McClennan, remarked. “Can’t walk through a Las Vegas casino without someone yelling, ‘Yeah Yeah.’ ”

Also joining York for the reunion was Tom Guiry (Scotty Smalls), Brandon Quintin Adams (Kenny DeNunez), Shane Obedzinski (Timmy Timmons), Victor Dimattia (Tommy Repeat), Chauncey Leopardi (Michael...

It’s been 25 years since “The Sandlot” was released, and the cast reunited on “The Today Show” to talk about the glory days and how things have been for them since the cult film hit theaters.

Smalls, Ham, Squints, DeNunez, Yeah-Yeah, Timmy, Bertram and Repeat all ventured back onto a baseball field on Thursday.

“It’s been crazy,” Marty York, who played Alan “Yeah-Yeah” McClennan, said. “I mean, it definitely gets you in places for free. I can’t walk through a Las Vegas casino without someone yelling ‘Yeah-Yeah!'”

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According to David Mickey Evans, who wrote, directed and narrated the film, shooting the film was “the greatest summer of our lives.”

Patrick Renna, who played Ham, said he showed the film to his son for the first time, but “he’s really big on ‘Moana,'” unfortunately. Chauncey Leopardi, who played Squints, confessed that his daughter “thinks I’m just kind of a dork.”

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After reminiscing about the good old days, the team took the field again, and NBC correspondent Gadi Schwartz stepped up since they were down one player.

Watch the video below.



Read original story ‘The Sandlot’ Cast Reunites After 25 Years on ‘Today’ (Video) At TheWrap...

Patrick Renna still recalls shooting a sequence of the 1993 film The Sandlot with director David Mickey Evans when the helmer was "on a bullhorn, just shouting lines." It was "so great" to have a helmer shouting profanities out for the actor to repeat back to camera when he was a kid, Renna said.

Twenty-five years after the release of the beloved baseball movie, which starred primarily children, Evans came together with now fully-grown castmembers Tom Guiry (who played Scotty Smalls), Chauncey Leopardi (Michael "Squints" Palledorous), Brandon Quintin Adams (Kenny DeNunez), Shane Obedzinski (Tommy "Repeat" Timmons), Victor Dimattia (Timmy Timmons), Marty York (Alan "Yeah-Yeah" McClennan), Grant Gelt (Bertram Grover Weeks) and...

Patrick Renna still recalls shooting a sequence of the 1993 film <em>The Sandlot</em> with director David Mickey Evans when the helmer was "on a bullhorn, just shouting lines." It was "so great" to have a helmer shouting profanities out for the actor to repeat back to camera when he was a kid, Renna said.

Twenty-five years after the release of the beloved baseball movie, which starred primarily children, Evans came together with now fully-grown castmembers Tom Guiry (who played Scotty Smalls), Chauncey Leopardi (Michael "Squints" Palledorous), Brandon Quintin Adams (Kenny DeNunez), Shane Obedzinski (Tommy "Repeat"...

Five years ago, “The Sandlot” director David Mickey Evans and stars Chauncey Leopardi and Patrick Renna watched the Boston Red Sox take batting practice. When they stepped onto the field, David Ortiz, Big Papi himself, ran over to them, gave them all a big bear hug and said, “You guys are my heroes.”

Now upon its 25th anniversary, “The Sandlot” is still being embraced by a new generation of players. This spring training, it was the Milwaukee Brewers who celebrated the ’90s cult classic, reenacting a famous scene from the film.

“I don’t know how many people sent me that clip,” Evans told TheWrap. “How many other professional sports teams, hockey, football, basketball, have ever gotten together to re-enact a scene from a famous hockey, football or basketball film? I don’t know, but I would venture a guess none.”

“Every time I see an athlete mention ‘The Sandlot,’ it’s cool to know that at some point in these guys’ lives, they related to the film for whatever reason. It’s still nostalgic for them,” Leopardi told TheWrap. “We kind of shaped their… Well, I don’t want to take full credit for why they play the game, but it’s clearly enough of a part for them to want to grow up and be pinnacle of the league.”

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Released on April 7, 1993, “The Sandlot” has since cemented its place in film history as the quintessential kids sports movie. A group of kids in a small town spend their summer bumming around a rundown old baseball diamond they’ve christened The Sandlot. They welcome a new, dorky and naïve kid nicknamed Smalls into their mix, and he gets himself in “the biggest pickle” when he smashes a baseball signed by Babe Ruth over a fence into a backyard guarded by a monstrous attack dog known as The Beast.

It’s a charming story with instantly memorable faces and dozens of quotable lines (“You’re killing me Smalls!), and though the film only made a modest $32 million in its theatrical run, Evans and Leopardi started noticing the film gaining popularity around the time of its release on DVD in 2002.

“When the DVD hit, it just took off. It’s never slowed down,” Evans said. “That’s when I noticed it. This film is not going away. It’s here forever.”

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Now a 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition of the film is available on Blu-Ray, complete with Topps baseball cards for each kid in the movie. But for years, fans would show up at events for the film adorned with memorabilia, including tattoos of Ham, Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez and of Leopardi’s character Squints.

“There’s a Squints portrait on some dude’s ass,” Leopardi said. “There’s somebody out there sitting on my face.”

“The Sandlot” is set in 1962 but, to many fans, feels timeless, a perfect, idyllic relic of Anytown, USA. It may seem like an adaptation of a classic grade school novel, but Evans came up with the story himself after his younger brother was bitten by a particularly nasty dog named Hercules (the same name as in the movie) while he was trying to retrieve a lost baseball.

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“That was not my childhood,” Evans said. “The idea that things are bigger than life, like that dog being six feet tall, that childhood imagination sort of aspect, that rings true for me. But having lots of friends, my little brother and I didn’t have that sort of thing. For me, the movie is a version of the way I wish my childhood would’ve been.”

Evans explained “The Sandlot” was set in 1962 because of a subplot that was eventually cut from the film: In 1962, Dodgers great Maury Wills chased down the stolen base record by swiping 104 bags in a single season. Squints would listen to Dodgers games on the radio, and every time Wills would steal a base, Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez would try and do the same. When Benny later gets a pack of Topps baseball cards that are all of Maury Wills, he’s inspired to become a ball player.

Evans said that audiences have either seen themselves in one of the many memorable faces in The Sandlot or wished they were one of them. And as a film about embracing legends (“Heroes get remembered, but legends never die), as Leopardi’s character Squints might say, it’s now become a movie that could live — as Squints famously recites in the film — “for-ev-ver, forrr-evv-verrrr.”

“That’s kind of what the story is about too,” Leopardi said. “It’s about these kids who weren’t supposed to make it there and watched Benny grow up to be a star. That’s the American dream.”

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Five years ago, “The Sandlot” director David Mickey Evans and stars Chauncey Leopardi and Patrick Renna watched the Boston Red Sox take batting practice. When they stepped onto the field, David Ortiz, Big Papi himself, ran over to them, gave them all a big bear hug and said, “You guys are my heroes.” Now upon its 25th anniversary, “The Sandlot” is still being embraced by a new generation of players. This spring training, it was the Milwaukee Brewers who celebrated the ’90s cult classic, reenacting a famous scene from the film. “I don’t know how many people sent me that clip,”...