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more about #amypascal more comments → Foster Kamer: Yes, but did they get Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh on tape? Questions worth asking. more » Spaceman Bill Leah: Ahhh, so Sony was just protecting us all from the horrors of seeing a 20 ft. Kevin Youkilis Shrek head. more » skahammer: This project was always a bad fit for Sony anyway. Am I the only one who hears the lumbering steps of the Beast From Buffalo moving in to snatch anoth... more » Kid Twist: Billy Beane's major league career wasn't worth recreating on the big screen. more » RaleighSthenelus: The film was axed because Sony has had one bomb after another this summer and they couldn't justify spending $50 million on a risky film. If Year One... more » phlox✔: Here's a quick fix: substitute Billy Bean for Billy Beane.Brad Pitt should have no trouble playing a gay MLB player and Bean was pretty ripped back in... more » Flippyjack: I hope they find financing and make that damn movie. Do you realize? Billy Beane (the Pitt character) is gay. Some of y'all care about that. Steven ... more » raincoaster: Looks like The Making of Moneyball is the kind of story you'd put Michael Lewis on...hmmm, is it a plot to keep him employed or something? more » graceless: Brad Pitt doesn't work much anymore... guess he doesn't have to. more » skahammer: A rare problem in the movie business, but a problem unique to it all the same: Both Zaillian and Soderbergh are accomplished craftsmen who have earned... more » raincoaster: I'm with Michael Lewis on this. I loved Moneyball, but cannot imagine turning it into a movie. His football book, Blind Side, has waaaaaaaaaaay more p... more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Mei guanxi. These people are all going to be out of jobs in a year anyway so who cares. more » -
#insidebaseball
Sony Knew What Soderbergh Was Up to on Moneyball Script
Yesterday we posted Sony's take on why Moneyball, the Soderbergh/Pitt film based on Michael Lewis' book, died five days before shooting was to start. Now someone close to the project has provided us with a different version of events.
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#hollywood
Why Did Sony Kill the Pitt/Soderbergh Film Adaptation of Michael Lewis' Moneyball?
Last week Sony killed Moneyball, the Steven Soderbergh-directed $58-million baseball film starring Brad Pitt based on Michael Lewis' book about former Oakland A's GM Billy Beane, just five days before filming was set to start. So what the hell happened? More » -
