Within a matter of three weeks, the Brad Pitt-starring, Steven Soderbergh-directed baseball flick Moneyball has gone from big-ticket prestige project to dead-in-the-water dud and — with the help of writer Aaron Sorkin — back to life… maybe.
As reported last week, the project was dropped by the studio when Soderbergh turned in a final script that was so alarmingly different from the one originally penned by Oscar-inner Steve Zaillian that they had no choice but to pull the plug with only days to go before the schedule start of shooting.
But now comes news from The Hollywood Reporter that Sorkin, most famous for the fast-talking scripts of TV’s West Wing, has been brought on to have a crack at the screenplay in the hope of resurrecting the project.
According to the report, Sorkin has been given orders to ignore the Soderbergh script and work from Zaillian’s draft of the true-life story of Oakland A’s manager Billy Beane. Brad is still set to star in the flick as Beane, but it looks like director pal will not be the one helming the film.
With nothing to do these days, Brad has spent his free time riding his motorcycle around L.A., at least when the bike isn’t breaking down in the middle of the road.
can we please stop the guy from making movies? He’s horrible. Let’s put real actors in Brad pitts roles. PLEASE, hire Robert Pattinson, Bradley Cooper, Ryan Gosling, and Ryan Reynolds. Not only are they better actors than brad but they would be cheaper for the studios. Brad Pitt is probably desperate to do the movie because it was reported that he wasted millions on art right before this movie got the kabosh. Why not start an article on How Angelina paid for many of the New Orleans Homes Brad Pitt is “building” from La? I have friends who live in new orleans and they say Brad gets all credit for the real guys that put their blood, sweat, and tears into those homes. Media needs to stop kissing his arse. The new orleans Brad for mayor crap is all for publicity for his new movie because he’s only in nola when he has a movie to promote.
Totally agree, his movies have tanked, so he should stop getting huge bucks for doing f all. we need serious actors who get job done.