Category: 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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Moneyball, starring Brad Pit & Jonah Hill, is filming at 202 W 1st St, Los Angeles, 6:00 A.M. – 2:00 A.M. all week. This is the first day of shooting, they will be primarily shooting in L.A. through Sept. They will also be filming in Oakland later this month.

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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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