Untitled Lenny Dykstra Project Movie Updates

Thu., Jun. 5, 2014

from Variety

John Lee Hancock is re-teaming with The Blind Side producer Gil Netter to direct an untitled movie about former Major League Baseball star Lenny Dykstra.

• changed the production status to Development
• added Gil Netter Productions as a production company
• added a synopsis

• Lenny Dykstra, a key part of the champion 1986 New York Mets, leads a checkered life after retiring from baseball in 1996. He is the subject of multiple investigations into his financial empire, which includes a jet charter company and a magazine mar... show all keted to professional athletes. He files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009 and auctions off his World Series ring. Dykstra pleads guilty in 2012 to bankruptcy fraud, concealment of assets and money laundering and is sentenced to six months in prison, 500 hours of community service, and is ordered to pay $200,000 in restitution.

• added drama as genre
• added Gil Netter as producer to credits
• added John Lee Hancock as director to credits
• created the movie profile