“Moneyball” gets the axe
Posted By Jeff Fletcher on June 21, 2009 2:44 pm
It looks like the folks in Hollywood should have followed my advice about how to make “Moneyball” a more interesting movie. Instead, they just canned the thing. Production was to have begun on Monday, but Sony Pictures gave the project the axe.
According to the story, the latest version of the script didn’t sit well with the studio boss who approved the project in the first place. Brad Pitt and his people were reportedly going to try to find another studio to finance the movie. Pitt was scheduled to play Billy Beane.
Gotta say, I’m not surprised. I’d always wondered how such a seamhead story could be interesting to the mainstream movie-going public. Not nearly enough sex or violence.
[...] be exactly Ocean’s 11-type material. But whatever the case, the Moneyball movie is apparently dead one day before production was to [...]
I really wondered how they were going to make this into an interesting movie. The only thing I could think of is they would use the narrative throughout about Beane being a talented “can’t miss” prospect with flashbacks as he went about building the late 90′s team.