Pitt, Soderbergh to Play a Little 'Moneyball'

This project has been whispered about for a while, and now it appears the adaptation of Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game will reunite Brad Pitt and Steven Soderbergh. Pitt has been keeping an eye on the project for a while, and Variety reports Soderbergh may speed up that process, signaling that it could be the next film he directs. It would be a real departure from Che, the four-hour biopic of Che Guevara, and his upcoming The Informant with Matt Damon, because Moneyball is a baseball movie. Pitt has been discussed as the choice to play Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, who built a contending team without the benefit of huge salaries. In four of his first ten seasons as GM, Beane built American League West championship squads, twice winning 100 or more games. Beane relied on computer analysis to make his squad a contender, and in 2006, had one of baseball's lowest team salaries but still grabbed the fifth best record in the game. What form the movie will take is unclear; will it all be behind-the-scenes stuff, or is it more of a baseball flick with a different hero? Steve Zaillian is writing the script, which initially sparked Pitt's interest in the project.

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[Will]

Glad to hear that Pitt isn't going to play Barry Zito, because I'm still holding out hope that he'll play Roy Hobbs in a re-imagined version of "The Natural".