Yes, isn't the story that Phil got a job as a maitre d at Rusty Staub's restaurant in NYC and Rusty told Phil about the casting call and Phil went up to Buffalo to film the movie for 3 weeks?
I just want it re-done because I think the Roy Hobbs in the book is more interesting and more human. I love the movie, but I don't think Robert Redford was all that great in it. Wilford Brimley and Richard Farnsworth are the best ones in that movie. In the book Hobbs is a gluttonous womanizer and not all that nice, but you still feel for him for what he went through. I won't tell you the ending but it's WAY different than the movie.