Are you not familiar with the real life baseball story of Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane? You will be once you see Brad Pitt portray him in MONEYBALL, in which he co-stars with Jonah Hill, Robin Wright, Chris Pratt, Kathryn Morris, Glenn Morshower and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Steven Zallian wrote the original screenplay, which was then apparently rewritten by Aaron Sorkin. Check out the trailer below courtesy of Yahoo, and tell us your thoughts in the comments. Can we just go ahead and say Brad Pitt is the new Robert Redford? Watch this and see if you agree.
Based on a true story, Moneyball is a movie for anybody who has ever dreamed of taking on the system. Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A’s and the guy who assembles the team, who has an epiphany: all of baseball’s conventional wisdom is wrong. Forced to reinvent his team on a tight budget, Beane will have to outsmart the richer clubs. The onetime jock teams with Ivy League grad Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) in an unlikely partnership, recruiting bargain players that the scouts call flawed, but all of whom have an ability to get on base, score runs, and win games. It’s more than baseball, it’s a revolution – one that challenges old school traditions and puts Beane in the crosshairs of those who say he’s tearing out the heart and soul of the game.
MONEYBALL opens September 23, 2011