Bennett Miller In 'Moneyball' Talks
Monday, December 7th, 2009
Bennett Miller is in negotiations to direct Columbia's "Moneyball," the on-again, off-again baseball drama starring Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's who rewrote the unwritten rulebook of baseball.
The move comes after Columbia, the actor and the producers -- Michael De Luca, Scott Rudin and Rachael Horovitz -- met with directors in recent weeks to get the movie back on track after pulling the plug on a Steven Soderbergh-directed iteration in June. The movie began its rehabilitation with when Aaron Sorkin was brought on to write a draft, drawing on Steve Zaillian's earlier take.
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