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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyball_(film)

Was anybody else aware of this? I can't wait personally, and apparently it's big enough to have Brad Pitt playing Billy Beane.

I'm hoping it turns out to be the "Jerry Maguire" of baseball.

It's been in pre-production for a while now.

I still can't imagine a scenario in which this is a good movie.

Aaron Sorkin apparently re-wrote the script after Sony shelved the movie in 2009. I can't decide whether that means it will be better or just more traditional (in terms of plot, pacing and techniques).

Whoever was scheduled to play Paul DePodesta was apparently replaced with JONAH HILL of all people, which is pretty much the last nail in the coffin for me.

I'll go see it, but I'm expecting a small disaster. I just can't see this book transitioning to film, particularly with a star-powered cast.

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It's pretty interesting that Royce Clayton will be playing our beloved Miguel Tejada on the big screen, who knew he could act? Also I'm interested to see how a guy named Corey Vanderhook is going to pull off the role of Ramon Hernandez.

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The cast includes Robin Wright and Philip Seymour Hoffman. That would usually be enought to excite me; but while I enjoyed the book, I do not see it translating into a major motion picture. Aaron Sorkin is a good choice. While I did enjoy his "The Social Network", it felt like a made-for-TV movie to me.

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I liked the Social Network and I'll probably give this a see. I've never actually read Moneyball. Jonah Hill does seem like an odd choice though for that kind of role. Pitt and Hoffman are both talented though. I've long admired the latter's versatility as an actor.

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DePodesta doesn't want to be portrayed in the movie.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ti-depodestamoneyball080510

But Jonah Hill will be portraying "Peter Brand."

We discussed the movie a little in this thread too.

So now a generation who won't read the book but will see the movie is going to think some guy named Peter Brand was the bookish driving force behind the FO?

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Sounds like an amazingly boring movie.

Well, to be fair a movie about a bunch of computer nerds creating a website sounds boring. Get a good book about the backstory, give it to Aaron Sorkin to write and have David Fincher direct and you get The Social Network.

My biggest hope is that they don't just cover the Oakland part of things, but also show Beane's backstory, probably the most interesting part of the book.

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Well, to be fair a movie about a bunch of computer nerds creating a website sounds boring. Get a good book about the backstory, give it to Aaron Sorkin to write and have David Fincher direct and you get The Social Network.

My biggest hope is that they don't just cover the Oakland part of things, but also show Beane's backstory, probably the most interesting part of the book.

My favorite part of the book is when Chad Bradford wrote a paper in elementary school about how he wanted to play "shote-stop" for the Baltimore Orioles.

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