Columbia Pictures just released the first trailer for Moneyball, the dramatic film based on the bestselling book by Michael Lewis. Starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, and Philip Seymour Hoffman, Moneyball is an inside look at Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane’s approach to building a major league baseball team.
Moneyball had a rough time of it on its way into production. Mere days from the start of filming, the project lost its director (Steven Soderbergh). After finding a replacement in Capote director Bennett Miller, filming finally got underway in July 2010.
Synopsis: Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics 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.
