Deadspin: Brad Pitt

Famous Actor Desperate To Portray Nerdy GM

Dashiell Bennett — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:45:16 EDT

Brad Pitt says that Moneyball: The Movie is still very much alive and he would very much like to play Billy Beane. So world-famous actors with beautiful movie star wives dream about being nerdy baseball executives? [MTV] More »

Now It's Aaron Sorkin's Turn To Fail At Writing A Moneyball Script

Tommy Craggs — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:30:04 EDT

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Columbia has enlisted Sorkin, the sanctimonious West Wing creator last seen making Ed Asner say "Macau" over and over, to write a draft of the star-crossed Moneyball script. Such waste. Such inefficiency. Somebody could write a bestselling book about this. More »

Soderbergh's Moneyball Script Too Real To Get Made

Dashiell Bennett — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:15:58 EDT

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The Sony Pictures executive who pulled the plug on Moneyball says that Steven Soderbergh changed the original script because he didn't want anything in the movie that didn't actually happen. So Billy Beane isn't a sweaty, foul-mouthed, Hooters waitress slayer? More »

Billy Beane Is A Golden God: Excerpts From The Scrapped Moneyball Script

Ben Cohen — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:30:00 EDT

It looks like Moneyball might not be coming to the big screen anytime soon because director Steven Soderbergh tinkered with the script and everyone realized that a movie version of the book made about as much sense as Joe Morgan. More »

Moneyball's Deep-Sixed

Tommy Craggs — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:30:28 EDT

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Break out the baseball puns! Columbia has dropped Steven Soderbergh's Moneyball adaptation like an overvalued, arbitration-eligible pitcher after a career year. Why, it's as if producers made a running, 20-foot backhand flip to cut down the movie at the plate. More »