Adapting Shoeless Joe

The type of adaptation I would choose that would make the most sense to an audience would be a live play. This would make the most sense to the viewer because you could see live, what is confusing all readers of this book. The scenes in Shoeless Joe that need to go are the ghost scenes. When Shoeless Joe arrives after he builds the field of dreams, he is a ghost because he passed away a while ago. I feel like a visual represent that shows Shoeless Joe as an actual person would make more sense. It's hard to talk to a ghost anyways so we could include some dialogue that was not found in the book between Ray and Joe. I would keep all of the main scenes as a director. The storyline is perfect there are just a few changes that needed to be fixed. I would cast shoeless Joe as a 6'4 baseball player and all of his teammates would be about 6'0 to show that Joe was the biggest and best ball player back then, which he was. The music selection that I would use is the Space Jam soundtrack. I believe I can fly starts playing the first time Joe emerges from the cornfield with his team as they walk out in slow-motion. The last major change I would make is a cut to Ray's wife in the story. If a single man, who is kind of old gets the vision to build a ball field from a random voice, was to meet Shoeless Joe, he would need someone to tell. Without the wife present, you can take the story anywhere with countless options of ending the story. I have not read the ending yet, so I will wait until I read that to see what I would do as a director with the ending. I would also change Ray's name to Fabio to change the story a little bit with an interesting name. Fabio would be played by a middle aged Puerto Rican who still lives in Iowa so that won't change. Besides that, the story directed by me will stay similar to the book which doesn't need anymore changes.