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Cameras in the Kingdom - Can a Famous, Mystical Golf Book Come to Life on Screen? Mr. Murphy's book, the best-selling golf novel of all time, was published in 1972 and has sold more than 1.5 million copies. Filmmakers have optioned it continually ever since, including Clint Eastwood for many years, but it never came close to production until last spring, when it was finally shot at the Bandon Dunes golf resort in Oregon. Release is hoped for by next summer. Click here to read more.>>> Golf in the Kingdom' realized on film By Will McCulloch, The San Francisco Chronicle | Published July 1, 2009
"Golf in the Kingdom," Michael Murphy's mystical novel set in Scotland, was published in 1972, and Murphy - a Salinas native who lives in Sausalito - has spent the past 37 years waiting to see his prose made into a movie. Please click here to continue reading.>> "Kingdom" comes to life at Bandon Dunes By Mike Stahlberg, The Register-Guard | Published: Apr 27, 2009 07:07PM BANDON - Frequently featured on golf magazine covers and television shows, Bandon Dunes is now about to make its big screen debut. Bandon Dunes Resort's four courses provide the setting for much of the motion picture "Golf in the Kingdom", currently being filmed here. Other scenes are being shot in and around the town of Bandon. The movie is based upon Michael Murphy's mystical tale of golf and self-discovery, set in Scotland in the 1950s. "Golf in the Kingdom" is the best-selling golf fiction book of all time, having sold more than 1 million copies since being published in 1972. Please click here to read the complete article.>> Clint Eastwood & Shivas Irons, the Movie In 2001, Clint Eastwood intended to produce a movie version of Michael Murphy's Golf In the Kingdom, having bought the film rights to the book a long time before that. He even considered Sean Connery for the starring role. Click here to read the entire story.>> Shivas Lives! Reprinted verbatim from Travel & Leisure Golf: Golf's best-selling work of fiction by far is Golf in the Kingdom, Michael Murphy's 1972 novel about a philosophical young player and Shivas Irons, the mystical golf professional he encounters in Scotland. Finally it looks as if someone might make a movie of the book. Over the years, several studios and even Clint Eastwood have owned the rights, but the transcendental nature of the material made it a tough sell. Now some investors, including
Murphy and people associated with the nonprofit Shivas Irons Society, have acquired the rights and plan to film this fall at Oregon's Bandon Dunes. Expect lots of bagpipes and a lyrical
feel, but not Sean Connery. At seventy-four, the longtime favorite to play the athletic Irons would need more than the spiritual force of True Gravity to be convincing. The Endearing Man In Tweed Herbert Warren Wind, one of golf's true gentlemen -- and one of its finest writers -- has departed us. His legacy is as formidable as his long, accomplished career. Click here to read about the passing of this uncompromisingly elegant personality.>> What is Enlightenment: An Interview With The Filmmakers What Is Enlightenment magazine recently sat down with Mindy Affrime and Susan Streitfeld, who offered an update on the cinematic version of Michael Murphy's best-selling book, Golf in the Kingdom. Discover how Affrime and Streitfeld "...are embracing the formidable creative challenge of bringing Aurobindo, enlightenment, and integral ideas to a medium more accustomed to surf, sex, and Schwarzenegger." -- WIE.org Click here to read the full interview.>> All Press Inquiries go to: ReadtheGreens@aol.com
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As the golf world begins gearing up for the British
Open, its oldest major championship, a book steeped in the mysteries and lessons of the ancient game is inching closer to becoming a film on the big screen. |
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