MONEYBALL IS BACK UP AT BAT
- By Devin Faraci
- Published 11/11/2009
- News
Despite losing Steven Soderbergh and his incredibly unique vision for the film, Sony's Moneyball isn't dead yet. Aaron Sorkin came onboard to rewrite the film and now the Risky Biz blog reports that new directors are circling it.The two they name are 500 Days of Summer's Marc Webb - ie, the guy everybody is going to this year - and Capote's Bennett Miller, who hasn't made a film since he won Philip Seymour Hoffman an Oscar back in '05. Miller made the better of the two Truman Capote movies (although Toby Jones was the better Capote in Infamous), and I think that The Cruise, his documentary about NYC tour guide Speed Levitch shows a playfulness that Moneyball could probably use. That said, Webb is a fine director, even if I thought his debut film was a tragic display of phoniness.
Whoever gets the gig still has Brad Pitt on board. But whoever gets the gig will forever live in the shadow of the weird Moneyball Soderbergh would have made.
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Comment #1 (Posted by Ol' Ball Lova)
I'm sorry but I still can't shake my intital though when I read the title of this for the first time: testicular currency.
Comment #2 (Posted by The Colonel)
Why is this becoming a movie, again? I'm a baseball fan, but really ... who gives a shit? How many championships has "moneyball" won?
Comment #3 (Posted by Glen Manning)
I would again like to think Chudmeisters for re-introducing the comments and article-specific message board links. Ah, those links are funny sometimes. Curiosity about what they might be makes me click on articles I may otherwise have ignored, so they're worth the trouble, gang! There is love.
Comment #4 (Posted by an unknown user)
steven soderbergh= unique? with the exception of "soalris" and "the informant!", every movie of his has been terribly mundane. When you look past the great cinematography and good perfs, the story always kinda sucks
Comment #5 (Posted by De4ective_Detective3)
Can't say I'll be missing Soderbergh all that much - the man has just become high maitnainence, unless he's not working on one of his own vanity projects. There is something about his style that is just so vanilla flavored. I really didn't believe in his vision for the film - mixing real athletes and people w/ actors. Being a Bay Area resident and As fan it would just come off as cheap -the actors would stick out like a sore thumb.
