Aaron Sorkin To Rewrite MONEYBALL

Well, whatdya know, things could rise from the dead after all, thank you George Romero. The project MONEYBALL was declared D-E-A-D but a certain legendary screenwriter is going to attempt a resurrection. According to Hollywood Reporter, after Columbia dropped the project because Amy Pascal didn’t like Soderbergh’s changes on the story that made it commercially unappealing, after meeting that ended in more disagreements, after WB and Paramount refused to be the next hosts, after Soderbergh was officially out and star Brad Pitt reportedly moved on to other gigs,.. Columbia has decided to hire The West Wing creator, Sports Night godfather, Aaron Sorkin to write a new draft of the adaptation MONEYBALL

Sorkin has been receiving praises lately because his script for that FACEBOOK Movie, THE SOCIAL NETWORK turns out to be not as lame as some of us thought it would be.
The script for MONEYBALL will draw on scribe Steve Zallian‘s earlier take on the project. The studio wants to put it on a fast-track, Sorkin set to turn in his version as soon as August.
Brad Pitt is still attached to star but unfortunately Steven Soderbergh will have no part in directing anymore, he’s not involved in this completely.

Here’s the official synopsis of the book MONEYBALL
“The Oakland Athletics have a secret: a winning baseball team is made, not bought.In major league baseball the biggest wallet is supposed to win: rich teams spend four times as much on talent as poor teams. But over the past four years, the Oakland Athletics, a major league team with a minor league payroll, have had one of the best records. Last year their superstar, Jason Giambi, went to the superrich Yankees. It hasn’t made any difference to Oakland: their fabulous season included an American League record for consecutive victories. Billy Beane, general manager of the Athletics, is putting into practice on the field revolutionary principles garnered from geek statisticians and college professors.”