Just when I think I’m out of Moneyball…
Aaron Sorkin is already threatening to turn the story of the over privileged Ivy League dorks who invented Facebook into an interesting movie (if anyone could do it, it’s Sorkin) and now Steven Zeitchik is reporting in THR that Columbia has hired Sorkin to rescue their spine-tingling baseball statistic movie Moneyball.
Now we’re forced to wonder who is going to direct.
Though we were confident in Steven Soderbergh’s ability to make Excel spreadsheets, On Base Percentage statistics and our 2nd least favorite baseball team interesting, we were perfectly content to have him off the project and on to something else.
Sadly, Sorkin pulls us back on the wagon train. We need to have a walk-and-talk with that guy…
Filed under: Development, News
Tags: Aaron Sorkin, Moneyball, Steven Soderbergh
:) Heehee, you made me laugh.
The Facebook screenplay is compelling enough, but then, I’m on Facebook all the time, so there. I’m not and never have been on any baseball statistic sites, so…automatically less interesting. Then again, Sorkin did Sports Night. Which is the most of one of those sorts of sports shows I’ve ever watched and was damn good.
Skeptical though.
Both stories will be about human drama and I trust Sorkin to find the interesting angle and punch it up with snappy dialogue. I just wish his skills were being put to the service of stories I actually gave a shit about.
I love Facebook, but the politics behind the invention of it don’t fascinate me, nor do the overprivileged ivy league twats involved.
As for Moneyball…I’m a baseball fan, but I sort of miss the old fashioned game with its superstitions and bogus conventional wisdom. The fantasy baseball playing, long-ball loving, stat nerds have sucked a lot of the character out of the game.