A movie based on Michael Lewis’ best-selling book “Moneyball,” which was derailed after Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh left the project last summer, is heading full steam toward the Coliseum with a new director and a new script.
One constant: Brad Pitt still will star as Billy Beane in the story of how the A’s general manager built winning teams with small-market payrolls, with the 2002 season as a backdrop.
Filming at the ballpark begins July 26 and runs through Aug. 5. Many of the stadium and clubhouse personnel will be taking part in the production.
Soderbergh’s version called for “Moneyball” figures such as Art Howe to portray themselves, with the baseball scenes filmed primarily at spring-training sites in Arizona, as well as at the Coliseum. The new version, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Bennett Miller (“Capote”), is taking another tact: Actors will rule the day (with Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman as Howe). The cast also includes Jonah Hill and Robin Wright.
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This is great Brad is doing this,he will be great in tjis movie I think.
Brad was a HS tennis player in Missouri,his dad Bill was a scholarship basketball player at OBU in Shawnee where he met Jane,Brad’s mom and married her,Brad was born in Shawnee,Oklahoma my home town,in fact we were both born in ACH hospital.
Great family and good people.
Moneyball has already begun filming in LA where most of the film will be shot. The film shoot will be on location in Oakland for like 2 weeks only, then back to LA until September.