Kathryn Morris Joins Moneyball?

Kathryn Morris (“Cold Case”) is in negotiations to star in Columbia Pictures’ baseball drama Moneyball, reports Risky Business.

She’s joining a cast that includes Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright and Stephen Bishop. Bennett Miller will direct the adaptation of Michael Lewis’ nonfiction bestseller “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game.”

The book’s subject is Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane (Pitt), who assembled a contending baseball club on a shoestring budget by employing a sophisticated computer-based analysis to draft players.

Morris will play the second wife of Beane.

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