Pitt tells MTV News it was studio’s call to tap new director Bennett Miller, who proved to be right man for the sports flick.
Steven Soderbergh had nothing if not grand ambitions for his take on “Moneyball.”
“I hope it sets a new standard,” he told MTV News in the spring of 2009. “Hopefully, anybody who makes a sports movie from now on is going to have to grapple with this.”
Soderbergh’s plan for the adaptation of Michael Lewis’ best-selling book about the 2002 Oakland A’s included re-creating the bowels of Oakland Coliseum and casting ballplayers and coaches to play their big-screen counterparts. The filmmaker also proposed, most ambitiously (and probably a bit bizarrely), the use of an Oracle-like persona, based on the legendary statistician Bill James, presented as an animated character and commissioned with narrating the action.
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