Demetri Martin & Brad Pitt on ‘Moneyball’ Roster

Steven Soderbergh (The Girlfriend Experience) will be directing Brad Pitt and now Demetri Martin in ‘Moneyball’ for Columbia Pictures. The film will be an adaptation of the book by Michael Lewis. The screenplay was written by Stan Chervin. The story is about Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), a baseball player who became the general manager of the Oakland Athletics. The movie will focus on Beane’s efforts to build a competitive team with a small budget.

I am instantly interested as the project involves two of my favorite things… a good director and the game of baseball. What’s even cooler is that the cast will also include a lineup of actual retired baseball players. That roster will include David Justice and Scott Hatteberg playing themselves. Darryl Strawberry and Lenny Dykstra will also be seen on camera being interviewed about their experience working with Beane during his time with the New York Mets.

Demetri Martin will play Paul De Podesta, a bright Harvard grad who turned down Wall Street to put his statistical talents to work creating a more efficient way of scouting for talented young players on the cheap. Production on ‘Moneyball’ is set to begin in June 2009.

[source: Variety]