View Full Version : Variety Announces Moneyball: the Movie
philkid3
10-17-2008, 06:58 PM
Starring Brad Pitt (http://tinyurl.com/6bjsky)
:laugh
stejay
10-18-2008, 05:18 AM
OMG!!!! I thought the world couldn't go any more insane......
NYMets523
10-18-2008, 07:44 AM
It'll turn into a biopic on Billy Beane which is not what the book was about at all.
DodgerBlue8188
10-18-2008, 10:10 AM
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philkid3
10-18-2008, 12:56 PM
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Should work now.
It'll turn into a biopic on Billy Beane which is not what the book was about at all.
Well, the book was about a lot of things, the movie will likely be about only some of those. The book didn't really get that deep in to the methodology, and the movie will probably not get in to it at all. It will be, like you said, about Beane and the 2002 season. A band of misfit players no one wanted built by a talented failure who goes against the establishment and who together have a great season and reel off 22 straight wins after losing star players and being declared dead.
You can definitely see the parts in the book that will be in the movie.
I'm excited to see who plays Lenny Dykstra. :laugh
Domenic
10-18-2008, 01:25 PM
Brad Pitt has not been confirmed yet - the role has merely been offered to him.
Still, I cannot see this working out... at all. Would it be a film of short stories and the like? Or would it just be a biopic about Billy Beane? Either way, I feel that this is doomed from the start.
philkid3
10-18-2008, 01:59 PM
=Still, I cannot see this working out... at all. Would it be a film of short stories and the like? Or would it just be a biopic about Billy Beane? Either way, I feel that this is doomed from the start.
I'm not sure why it's doomed from the start, it makes for a good baseball movie. I'm sure it will be a dramatized version of Billy Beane's life story coupled with the anti-establishment building of the A's, made up of quirky players that no one else appreciated, and the 2002 season, with the 22 game winning streak.
Sounds like a baseball movie, this one is just based in reality.
Brian McKenna
10-18-2008, 02:20 PM
I hope they don't mix him up with Bill Bean and go another way with the movie.
philkid3
10-18-2008, 02:27 PM
I hope they don't mix him up with Bill Bean and go another way with the movie.
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
plask_stirlac
10-19-2008, 04:09 PM
That's the way to follow Moneyball's way:
Hire a $20 million actor with strings attached for a non-action non-blockbuster.
Erik Bedard
10-19-2008, 04:28 PM
I'll watch it. I won't have high expectations, but I'll watch it.
KevinWI
10-19-2008, 10:08 PM
This movie should be made in the Moneyball tradition and instead of using any A-list actors, only use F-list actors.
spark240
10-19-2008, 10:22 PM
That's kind of what I thought. Even aside from Moneyball, movies about sports figures often use lesser-known actors picked for look and manner and possibly athleticism. The subjects are popular and recognizable, and the audience will demand a certain level of fidelity to the images they already know (61* is a great example). Brad Pitt is way more famous than Billy Beane... However he is pretty good too, particularly in non-blockbusters. Maybe he'll rise to the occasion.
The other thought I have about this movie is that, if the analytical aspect isn't very well done (and wouldn't that be the hard part to film? if they even try?), the movie will make it possible for even more people to talk like they know what Moneyball was about. And not. :blah: :evil
philkid3
10-19-2008, 10:54 PM
The other thought I have about this movie is that, if the analytical aspect isn't very well done (and wouldn't that be the hard part to film? if they even try?), the movie will make it possible for even more people to talk like they know what Moneyball was about. And not. :blah: :evil
Oh lord. I didn't even think about that. . .