At this rate my next headline will just be “PENIS PENIS VAGINA.” Anyway, looks like Brad Pitt/Steven Soderbergh’s adaptation of Moneyball, which Sony head Amy Pascal shelved three days before it was supposed to start shooting, will be moving forward without Steven Soderbergh. Pascal reportedly didn’t like Soderbergh’s idea to shoot documentary-style recreations of events from the non-fiction book using the real people involved. Aaron Sorkin (your parents’ Joss Whedon) has been hired to do a re-write.
The writer has been brought on to do a draft of the baseball drama, drawing on Steve Zaillian’s earlier take. The studio wants to move forward quickly with the new iteration, with Sorkin set to turn in his version as soon as next month. [THR]
It sounded like Steven Soderbergh had an idea to try something different, rather than going the usual studio route of trying to crowbar non-fiction reporting into a conventional narrative, a lá Fast Food Nation, and it sucks that we’ll never get to see it. But when it comes right down to it, this is still a book about baseball stats, which is right up there with Jon and Kate and American Idol on my list of things I absolutely, positively couldn’t give less of a sh-t about.
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Aaron Sorkin needs to start doing mushrooms again. And he needs to share. Just a cap and a stem, to get me through work. These autistic kids are a fucking drag.
The Mighty Feklahr’s list of things He absolutely, positively couldn’t give less of a forshak about?
Romulans! CRAPLAH!
“Soderbergh” derives from “sodemy”.
The last time Brad Pitt’s balls were this contested over, Jennifer Aniston had them in her mouth.
How’s life in communist Russia, comrade?
Fek, what’s the effin’ deal. You coming down tomorrow or what?
Brad Pitt’s balls are money, but they needed change.
“At this rate my next headline will just be “PENIS PENIS VAGINA.”
Personally Vince I would have gone with PENIS VAGINA VAGINA, but to each his own I guess.
Donk-you guys should know the drill by now, I beg my wife for weeks then the day before she puts her foot down and says no.
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So her body will be in my trunk.
From the revised edition of:
The Klingon Dictionary (Star Trek) (Paperback)
by Marc Okrand
Fek’lhr (n): He who is without balls.
I actually do give a shit about baseball statistics, and I still think this film is going to be a late-term abortion.
So inkyPee are you saying the story will be fully fleshed out but come to an sudden unhappy ending that will cause it to die in the ratings and all the theaters will be picketed by the Westboro Baptist Church?
This movie would only be marginally more entertaining if it was about the Billy Bean from the baseball world who preferred catching to pitching.
I’m saying the people involved in creating it think it’s too late to turn back now, but in reality it belongs in a dumpster.
Man, it’s a good thing Sony got rid of Soderbergh. Somebody might have actually accused them of making a good decision, that’s bad for their corporate image.