How does a movie about successful baseball statistics game planning get green lit, let alone a $57 million dollar budget?
Well, Steven Soderbergh — the director of this one, titled, “Moneyball,” — did write a book called, “Getting Away With It,” but the answer seems to be Brad Pitt.
Put him in anything, a piece of mud with a couple of words on it and it’ll get the green light. But this L.A. Times article does put it all in good perspective and articulates just how remarkable this feat is.
Plus they note, that it has no love story, no perceptible villains, and “and lots of wonky baseball chatter.” Apparently the script is incredibly faithful to the source material too.
The final shooting script was written by Steve Zaillian (“Schindler’s List”), but still it seems like the most unlikeliest Hollywood $50+million film ever. Or at least in a long, long time. Let’s not forget, Soderbergh wants to use animation in it, as a narrative gimmick.
Soderbergh apparently is going go cast real Oakland A’s baseball players to play themselves too. “[He’s so adamant about sticking close to the tone and texture of the book that he is having many of the actual characters involved with the 2002-era events — including Oakland A’s Manager Art Howe, catcher turned-first baseman Scott Hatteberg and outfielder David Justice — play themselves.”
The film is set to start shooting June 11 and knowing Soderbergh — who again is acting as the cinematographer on this one — he’s probably have it in the can in five months and will start working, possibly shooting on something else.
not sure what your point is..considering Brad Pitt gets $25 million of the $57.
a Film written by an Oscar winner directed by an Oscar winner with a shooting budget of 37 million seems like a bargain.
Pretty sure the point is you should STFU.
Now, now, chill people. And who says Pitt is actually getting $25 for this one? Surely he's had to have cut his fee for this one. And it's also a re-write. And Soderbergh is the rarest of Oscar winning directors. The point is it seems like a huge budget for a project that would normally get half this. I totally would bet Pitt did not get $25
Still half the budget of Oceans 12!
These are the types of things that executives wake up in cold sweats realizing- I'm spending $57 million on an adaptation of Moneyball!
We are not getting out of this depression anytime soon. Its going to get a lot worse for most of us. It didn't have to be this way. Greed ruins everything. If you don't believe it, then ask any professor of economics.
"As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption; mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth — not of existing wealth, but of wealth as it is currently produced — to provide men with buying power equal to the amount of goods and services offered by the nation's economic machinery. Instead of achieving that kind of distribution, a giant suction pump had by 1929-30 drawn into a few hands an increasing portion of currently produced wealth. This served them as capital accumulations. But by taking purchasing power out of the hands of mass consumers, the savers denied to themselves the kind of effective demand for their products that would justify a reinvestment of their capital accumulations in new plants. In consequence, as in a poker game where the chips were concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, the other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped."
Marriner Eccles, FDR's Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank – 1959
In other words, the first Great Depression was caused by greed. The rich couldn't settle for reasonable pay. They had to have more and more and more. That caused a giant shift in buying power from the majority to the rich. When the majority lost their buying power, they lost their ability to support the economy. Einstein said basically the same thing in 1949.
Its even worse now. Ordinary people havn't only lost their relative buying power. They have also lost their savings, home values, pensions, and benefits. This has been happening gradually for the last 30 years. Meanwhile, the rich have become super incredibly rich. The richest 500 Americans are worth about 2 trillion dollars. More than the bottom 40% of American housholds combined. The richest 1 percent are worth about 17 trillion dollars. More than the bottom 98% of American households combined. Thats just insane. I don't care how much work for humanity the rich claim to do. Its nothing but a cover for their own greed. We don't need anymore rich people to create jobs or make donations for charity. We need them to get reasonable about how much money and assets they keep for themselves.
Don't believe their excuse about paying more income taxes. They don't pay enough. For every tax they pay, they get an obscene profit, bailout, or kickback from our government to cover it. We had a progressive tax system that worked for over 40 years. It prevented too much wealth from accumulating at the top. In 1976, the middle 80% owned about 2/3 of America's total wealth. Reagan lowered taxes for the rich. Bush lowered them again. Now, the richest 5% own about 2/3 of America's total wealth. The lower 95% own about 1/3. America's wealth has been transfered from poor to rich again. Now, we have another depression.
Don't believe it when the rich claim to be getting poorer. Property values have gone down for everyone. Thats because of the concentration of wealth and income. When the economy slows down, property values tank. So when rich people complain about lower net worth, its a trick. They still have the same buying power on average.
Everything that is happening with the economy is happening because too much wealth has been taken away from the majority and concentrated into the private vaults of rich people. The same ones on TV telling us how much they want to help the world. Its a big lie. Just another way to promote their own business and get more of our money. Rich people don't want to help the world. They want to own it.
Now, the economy is ruined. Obama can't fix it because the rich won't let him. There will be no bailout for the people because the ones with all the money won't settle for less. They want more. Its going to get a lot worse. Say goodbye to the American dream and hello to the American nightmare.
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what a buzz kill you are. copy and paste this….