Inside Baseball

[bryant]

Soderbergh’s thinking about a movie based on Moneyball. That is even goofier than making a movie based on Candy Land. I’m all in. Seriously, Soderbergh’s intellectual approach makes him a perfect fit.

Originally published at Imaginary Vestibule.

Comments

[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, starring Brad Pitt as Billy Beane!

As an A's fan, I'm of course in. :) We've never had a movie before!

It's a strange book to adapt. Really, they're talking about the first few chapters only. As a Billy Beane biopic, and a story about the conflict between old school and new school, a changing of the guard, it works. Large portions of the book are about statistics or particular players that don't work easily into a narrative flow (particularly Chad Bradford, Scott Hatteberg.) But you could talk about the 2004 draft a lot. (Beane's first pick: A guy named Nick Swisher. Not bad!)

My sincere hope is that it'll be an entertaining and compelling story, _and_ expose people to the idea that measuring value by RBI is stupid in a way that makes sense. :)

[solarmus.livejournal.com]

I read 'monkeyball' not 'moneyball'...imagine my confusion

[amberley.livejournal.com]

I would have thought The Blind Side would be more filmable, but it's not surprising Soderbergh knows something I don't.

[foxbat.livejournal.com]

I'd pay to see that. I'd pay extra for the "Making of..." feature on the DVD.

[bryant]

Soderbergh does a pretty killer director's commentary.

[death-by-monkey.livejournal.com]

Considering they made a movie out of "Fast Food Nation" (which I can't say that I've seen) I don't see any reason they can't make a film out of "Moneyball".

[bryant]

Can't argue that. Apparently hip semi-indie directors doing movies based on non-fiction is the new black, or something.