Moneyball

Maybe he could help with the steroid scenes.

Former Giant Royce Clayton is playing Miguel Tejada, and onetime Oakland pitcher Jason Windsor is playing John Mabry, Iserson said. He said the former minor-leaguers playing Barry Zito and Tim Hudson look especially like the real thing.

"It's funny to see the Coliseum without all the tarps again, and with the old ads on the walls," Iserson said. "It's movie time in Oakland."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/29/SP7F1EL74K.DTL#ixzz0vBS0o6Vn

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/29/SP7F1EL74K.DTL

DePo rebukes character portrayal (aka fattye), asks for character to be pulled from film:
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AmbGitzWdEuSP.p23sCtt5kRvLYF?slug=ti-depodestamoneyball080510

see Neyer link today about Scott Hatteberg portrayal

actually, Hill is now playing a 'fictional' character (Peter Brand).

Philip Seymour Hoffman is playing Art Howe! I guess the movie'sd clubhouse spread is bigger than the Athletics'.

http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/08/04/first-look-philip-seymour-hoffman-as-art-howe-in-moneyball/

Is that "Miguel Tejada" (Royce Clayton) to PSH's extreme left?

Barry Newman would have made a good Ken Macha.

http://i.imgur.com/s7R4o.jpg

philip seymour hoffman as earl weaver?

I'm thinking Art Howe.

so sanskrit reads my posts 4 months later. TYPICAL

so, some 6 months-before-release chatter:

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2011/03/what_happened_w_4.php

There are THREE significant female roles? Sounds like a loose adaptation.

So looking forward to the acting debut of Royce Clayton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l3IXTQDsDg&feature=player_embedded

if i'm not morbidly obese & yet jonah hill is playing me in a movie, i'm feeling slightly insulted

ugh that looks terrible

cut to: metal folding chair slammed against dingy concrete wall

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2:09 (doesn't fold, but)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inEVDYptNT8

I just realized that I am helpless against this movie because it is about baseball and takes place in Oakland.

1:59: "Text me the play by play"

i'll watch anything with jonah hill in it, tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMDDdswpcRk

Tobey Maguire as Paul DePodesta
Hanley Ramirez as Darryl Strawberry
Jonah Hill as Jeremy Brown

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, October 17, 2008 11:27 AM (2 years ago)

*almost*...

lol that wouldve been amazing casting

Stephen Bishop ... David Justice

Adrian Bellani ... Carlos Peña

Sergio Garcia ... Jorge Posada

Royce Clayton ... Miguel Tejada

David Hutchison ... John Mabry

Andrew Plummer ... Randy Velarde

Casey Bond ... Chad Bradford

Ari Zagaris ... Jim Mecir

Nick Porrazzo ... Jeremy Giambi

Melvin Perdue ... Ray Durham

*****

No Barry Zito?

i was thinking about this earlier - i remember reading a script review of soderbergh's draft that said it was atrocious/unfilmable/completely without narrative, and apparently the studio thought so too cuz they cancelled the movie days after it they read it. and at the time i thought maybe that was for the best, but now that it's been made into a more conventional movie im not convinced that ol sodesy wasnt the right guy for the job in the first place. maybe im just feeling more generous towards him after seeing & loving the informant!, but with this approach... where's the human drama in this story? beane having mild disagreements with his scouting department? i know sorkin rewrote it but i doubt he could find the ~human core~ in the story like he did w/social network. soderbergh probably would've at least done something weird and original with the material

philip seymour hoffman as art howe is A+ hilarious casting though and i will definitely watch the shit out of this anyway

i know sorkin rewrote it but i doubt he could find the ~human core~ in the story like he did w/social network

fail

lol i suspected you'd have something to say about that

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810166670/video/25625800

full trailer

this looks like a good tv movie

haha

The 'Moneyball' Movie: Less Stats, More Hugging

BY RAY GUSTINI04:37 PM ET

In his 2003 book Moneyball, journalist Michael Lewis examined how Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane used complex statistics to identify undervalued talent and turn the small-budget franchise into one of baseball's perennial contenders. Based on the just-released trailer for the long-delayed Moneyball movie, it looks as if star Brad Pitt, director Bennett Miller and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin adaptation are concentrating less on VORP and more on heart.

Around the Web, the trailer is reminding people of the trailer for pretty every other sports movie ever made. Not that that's a bad thing. "Maybe it's just the Friday Night Lights–ish score toward the end of the promo that's generating a root-for-the-underdog/family-man sensation," enthuses Vulture's Margaret Lyons. "but either way: root root root!"

MSNBC baseball blogger Aaron Gleeman conceded the heartstring plucking moments seem "awfully silly if you’ve read the book or are simply a knowledgeable baseball fan." But if fans of the book can "suspend reality a bit and think of the whole thing as a Major League-style story about an underdog team of misfits and toss in Brad Pitt doing all sorts of Brad Pitt-like things playing general manager Billy Beane it might be decent."

And besides, a thorough cinematic examination of Beane's "contrarian new philosophy on scoring talent" wouldn't have much crossover appeal with "folks who don’t yet know what WHIP stands for," wnoted Entertainment Weekly's Jeff Labrecque. "So Aaron Sorkin’s script delves deeper into Beane’s homelife and his relationship with his awkward baseball-geek assistant, the blandly-named Peter Brand (Jonah Hill)."

Slash Film's Russ Fischer particularly enjoyed Pitt's "Don't go on the Internet" line, calling it a "trademark Sorkin moment." "Also," continued Fischer, "does Brad Pitt look like he’s styled after Sorkin more than after the real Billy Beane?" (Our take: kind of. But we've also thought of Sorkin and Beane as being pretty similar.)

No wonder DePo wanted his name likeness removed from the film.

Also, dude prolly didn't like being portrayed by some stoner slack chubby schlub:
http://www.google.com/search?q=paul+depodesta&tbm=isch

or someone that is 100 pounds heavier than him

Paul Depodesta: 6' 1 1/2" 160 lbs.
Jonah Hill Feldstein: 5' 6" 224 lbs.

jesus christ it is almost impossible to believe that Entertainment Tonight clip is real and not satire

haha trace

hope they explain who fabio is in the international version

Slash Film's Russ Fischer particularly enjoyed Pitt's "Don't go on the Internet" line, calling it a "trademark Sorkin moment."

Yeah, there is no way Billy Beane said something so knee-slapping like that to his young daughter.

love sorkin but 'don't go on the internet, watch tv' is pretty bad

i think this looks like a pretty good hbo movie, like caek said? are underdog sports flicks uncool now or something?

I think that The Blindside certainly lowered the bar, but for baseball nerds there is the persuasive argument that Moneyball (the book) has cursed the A's to some degree (ie, they've sucked ever since with I think one possible exception).

i think this looks like a pretty good hbo movie, like caek said? are underdog sports flicks uncool now or something?

― ☂ (max), Thursday, June 16, 2011 7:26 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

they're very uncool! i mean, im a sucker for a good one, but look at all the sneering that stuff like The Fighter got for being a pretty trad sports flick

PTT, did you like The Blindside y/n?

istr 'the fighter' was oscar-nominated? and got a fair bit of critical love? not everywhere. but it was't hated.

trailer for this is shitty modern 'give them the whole plot' garbage but it'll probably be aight

The Blind Side was also Oscar nominated. lol

blind side was goofy but sandy was fun in it and there's some really corny phil fulmer/lou holtz/nick saban cameos - there are worse ways to spend a couple hours

nobody said anything about 'hated' enrique the word was UNCOOL pay attention pal!!!!!

(ie, they've sucked ever since with I think one possible exception).

Moneyball was published in 2003. That season they went to the playoffs. The following three seasons they won 91, 88, and 93 games.

yeah but narrative-wise for a movie like this it would've been nice for them to at least get to the world series

okay, kindly allow me to revise my comment to "mostly awful"