Has Soderbergh’s Moneyball Movie Been Canned?

the news about the movie has been done to death, but this item is interesting because it mentions one of the problems the studio might have had with the script. too bad, i liked the idea myself.

Variety reported yesterday that the Steven Soderbergh/Brad Pitt production of Moneyball, Michael Lewis’ great book about how Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane used statistics to change baseball, was closed down just 96 hours before shooting began. Apparently, Columbia Pictures chief Amy Pascal read Soderbergh’s latest revision to the script, became wary of big changes in it, and pulled the plug, leaving the director casting about for a new studio. One unusual element in the planned film? Soderbergh intended to splice “interviews with such ballplayers as Beane’s former Mets teammates Lenny Dykstra, Mookie Wilson and Darryl Strawberry” throughout.

wonder who they’ll get to play the little graphic designer in round glasses who spends way too much time on a certain baseball site commenting about the jeremy giambi for john mabry trade? not somebody fat i hope.