Pitt, Soderbergh Show Us the Moneyball
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Brad Pitt and Steven Soderbergh are an Ocean's apart no more.
The director is in talks to reteam with his Ocean's franchise headliner on Moneyball, a sports film centering on the real-life Oakland Athletics' general manager who used a computer analysis program to draft a playoff-caliber team.
While Pitt joined the project last fall, Variety reports that Soderbergh has entered into early talks to helm the flick after Marley & Me auteur David Frankel parted ways with the film.
The underdog movie is an adaptation of Michael Lewis' bestselling Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, which chronicled Oakland A's G.M. Billy Beane's successful foray into computer-assisted recruiting. Using the a special program, Beane pieced together a team with a bare-bones payroll that became a World Series contender
Per the trade, the film will be Soderbergh's next project, usurping the Catherine Zeta-Jones and Hugh Jackman-starring Cleopatra and Marc Antony lovefest Cleo on his roster. Pitt, meanwhile, recently finished up work on Quentin Tarantino's World War II epic, Inglourious Basterds.
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