Disney’s The Rookie opens today and tells the story of Texan Jim Morris. Houston’s Dennis Quaid portrays Morris in the movie. Morris hurled his first major league pitch at age 35.
Directed by another Houstonian, John Lee Hancock, The Rookie was filmed in Thorndale, northeast of Austin. The company also filmed in Taylor, Hutto, Thrall, Dell Diamond in Round Rock and The Ballpark in Arlington.
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I’m a graduate of Reagan County High School in Big Lake, Texas. The first time I viewed The Rookie, I spent the majority of the movie looking at the background for places I recognized and possibly people I might have known while living there. I knew the movie wasn’t filmed in it’s entirety in Big Lake. However, I thought some of it was. I’m just curious…was any of the movie “The Rookie” filmed in Big Lake, and if so, which scenes?
Thank you
Sheri Blair
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