I got the biggest goosebumps watching this trailer, you have no idea! I have always loved baseball movies, I don’t know why – because I hate sports. The whole underdog coming out for the big win in the end kills me every time!
Add Brad Pitt to the mix – and hell yeah!
Entertainment Tonight got the first look at ‘Moneyball’ which stars Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, a baseball coach to uses a different method for finding players. Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Jonah Hill, Robin Wright, and Robin Wright also star.
Based on the 2003 New York Times Bestseller by Michael Lewis, ‘Moneyball’ has been in the works for quite some time. Unfortunately, it has hit a few snags along the way.
First the film was postponed three days before production was scheduled to begin. After that, Steven Soderbergh, who was originally supposed to direct the baseball flick, was dropped by Sony who apparently didn’t like the approach he was taking. Oscar winner Aaron Sorkin was then called in to rewrite the script, and eventually Bennett Miller (‘Capote’) was chosen to direct.
After all that, we still have hopes that the final product will turn out OK. Watch below for some footage of the film — it’s not much, but at least we get to see Pitt in action as he portrays Oakland A’s general manager, Billy Beane.
‘Moneyball’ is scheduled for a Sept. 23 release date.
Jaws dropped last month when Sony Pictures canceled the $50-million Brad Pitt movie Moneyball only days before it was scheduled to start shooting – but now, apparently, the studio is working to shut those mouths.
The West Wing writer and creator Aaron Sorkin has been brought in to do a quick re-write on a script that Sony had ultimately deemed too arty and documentary-like in approach, reports The New York Times.
The studio also hopes to add Oscar-winning producer Scott Rudin (There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men) to the movie’s creative team.
Based on Michael Lewis’s nonfiction book about the Oakland Athletics and their general manager Billy Beane – who assembled a star Major League team despite a lack of a major bank account – the movie’s original script was by Ocean’s series director Steven Soderbergh (who was to have directed Moneyball) and screenwriter Steven Zaillian.
According to The Times, should Sorkin finish his script in due course, a new director will be hired, Pitt will stay involved and Moneyball will start to roll this fall.
It’s rarely a good sign when a movie studio decides to put a film into turnaround only a couple of days before it’s slated to begin shooting — especially a film from an Oscar-winning director and starring one of the biggest-name actors on the planet. But that’s exactly what happened to Brad Pitt’s next project, the Steven Soderbergh-directed Moneyball, which was supposed to start filming today in Arizona.
However, insiders explain to OK! that this delay in production, which is reportedly due to last-minute conflicts over the script, may end up working in Brad’s favor — psychologically and physically.
“The location shoot for the film would have kept Brad away from his family, who are all with Angelina Jolie while she films Salt on the east coast,” says the insider. “But with Moneyball on hold, he won’t be jetting back and forth or have to worry about being a long-distance dad. Brad is free to do what he wants until this situation with the film is resolved.”
Some sources tell OK! that Brad already took advantage of the schedule change by flying east to join Angie and the kids for Father’s Day weekend.
One thing Brad might want to do with his free time, says the insider, is hit the gym. “Brad’s character in Moneyball, Oakland A’s manager Billy Beane, is in the kind of shape Brad used to be in, but anyone who’s looked at photos of him recently can see this is not the ripped hottie from Fight Club,” explains the insider. “Maybe he should stop riding his motorcycle and take a spinning class.”
