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Sony still at bat for 'Moneyball'

By Adnan Tezer Jul 10, 2009, 22:33 GMT

Sony still plans on making the baseball film "Moneyball," hiring Aaron Sorkin to polish an early script by Steve Zaillian.

Brad Pitt is still attached to star in Columbia Pictures' adaptation of Michael Lewis' nonfiction bestseller "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game," but Steven Soderbergh will no longer direct the film.

According to Variety, production on "Moneyball" was set to start last month, but studio head Amy Pascal wound up pulling the plug on the film just days before shooting was to begin when Soderbergh turned in a new version of the script the studio didn't want to make.

“Moneyball” was put into limited turnaround at the time, giving other studios the chance to pick it up.

But Sony is keeping hold of the project, and Sorkin's changes will be more in line with the version the studio favored all along, with the focus on Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, who assembled a contending baseball club on a shoestring budget by employing a sophisticated computer-based analysis to draft players.

Soderbergh's draft and production plans took a more documentary approach that the studio felt wouldn't cross over commercially with moviegoers.

Sorkin is expected to be completed with his polish by August.

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