Good morning, baseball fans!
The San Francisco Giants aren’t often depicted in feature films. Usually, if being a baseball fan is a prominent part of a character’s personality, the baseball team tends to be from New York or Boston, etc.
However, the Giants will be featured (at least in passing) in the upcoming film “Caught Stealing” by director Darren Aronofsky. The film is set in the 1990s and follows Hank Thompson, who grew up in the Bay Area and ends up getting mixed up in some criminal shenanigans in New York City. A key part of Thompson’s character appears to be that he is a massive Giants fan. Which we love to see.
The film is set to feature an impressive list of actors, including Austin Butler, Zoe Kravitz, Matt Smith, Regina King and Bad Bunny among more. And according a write-up from SF Gate’s Gabe Lehman, features some pretty great prop/set work with regards to Giants memorabilia that is accurate to the time period.
Honestly, they had me at “Giants fan” and Matt Smith. I’m a nerd, after all, and a huge Doctor Who fan. I still remember watching the American version of the UK’s Broadchurch series called Gracepoint. Smith’s fellow former-Doctor, David Tennant, reprises his main role from the original, but this time as a detective from a small town in Oregon. He talks about the Giants at one point and clearly it stood out to me because I’m a collector of weird moments like this.
Anyway, “Caught Stealing” is set to be released on August 29th. Mark your calendars and make sure to wear your gear.