Citi Field hasn’t lived long enough to make too many TV series or movies. Its most prominent foray into the film business may be a sequence from Avengers Endgame. The New York Mets’ home field since 2009 will gradually appear in more on-screen sequences. It will reportedly reappear in the first pictures of a Darren Aronofsky movie that has been made public. Good for you, Citi Field. You’ve been rather busy.
However, there is an issue. The timing isn’t right, as astute Mets supporters and even SNY’s Mets Director John DeMarisco noted.
The events in Aronofsky’s film occur in the late 1990s. Shea Stadium continued to tremble. Citi Field was nonexistent.
A movie faux pas only baseball fans will care about is a whale of a problem for Darren Aronofsky
Aronofsky is not the type of filmmaker who adheres to the strictures of reality. In this instance, baseball fans who wish to have a better sense of time will be extremely irritated. This implies no Citi Field if it’s the 1990s. Additionally, a reliever should not be removed from the game after facing just one hitter if there is a real baseball situation.
We’ll have to wait and see if the scene with Citi Field truly appears in the finished version of the movie or if the editors immediately start deleting it or altering the stadium to resemble Shea Stadium. The improper stadium utilization wouldn’t bother many moviegoers who don’t give a damn about baseball. What about those of us who are passionate about the game? It’ll probably right up there with in Rookie of the Year the manager recounts plucking his pitching instructor in the minor levels years ago. It is uncommon for pitchers to become major league managers.
SWAT team member who harms himself in the bushes in Die Hard and then yells in pain, or the Stormtrooper who hits his head in the first Star Wars—both of which reached the final cut when a soldier had a nice little accident—will not be up there with this mistake.
It should be possible for technology to remove any reference to Citi Field and maybe the Mets from this movie. It’s not precisely a follow-up to Frequency, which is without a doubt the best film ever created with a significant narrative involving the Mets.
