Moneyball is back On
Posted by Rodneyon 13. 04. 2010in News Chat
Looks like you just cant keep a good sports biopic down.
After the Brad Pitt staring Moneyball looked to be shelved after budget concerns, we now find out that they are moving forward with the project after a few tweaks with Bennett Miller at the helm.
Get the Big Picture says:
So, Soderbergh left the project over budgetary concerns and a script the studio didn’t like. Aaron Sorkin re-wrote it and Bennett Miller (Capote) will now direct it, and Deadline says everything’s a go again for this summer.
There are a few things that remain the same, and a few things that have changed. For starters, Brad Pitt is still playing Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane, upon whose story the book is based.
The budget now is around $47 million, down about 20% from Soderbergh’s rate. The format of the movie has been shifted, too. Instead of a docu-drama approach (with oodles of baseball player cameos and…um…animation), Miller will have a more run-of-the-mill sports bio-pic, albeit behind the scenes. Another fairly recent development is the signing of Jonah Hill, who will play Beane’s stat-obsessed right hand man, Paul De Podesta.
Adding Hill (replacing Demitiri Martin) gives me a bad taste for the film already, perhaps he will play it straight as the brainy numbers guy. I keep hoping Hill will impress me, but for the life of me I don’t know why.
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Hill is a HUGE problem for this potential movie adaptation. Anybody who knows who Paul DePodesta is will INSTANTLY realize how wrong Jonah Hill is for that role. Paul DePodesta is a brainy, trimly fit man, everything Jonah Hill is not.
There are literally HUNDREDS of actors out there who could have played the role of DePodesta, but they chose Jonah Hill instead. I get the feeling he is probably going to be some kind of comedic sidekick or something.
The Hill casting is akin to Olive Stone casting someone like Tracy Morgan as Colon Powell in “W.” Just a bad idea.