Looking more like Robert Redford than ever and definitely starring in a movie the legendary actor might have made decades ago comes the trailer for the
Brad Pitt starrer
Moneyball. The Columbia Pictures movie chronicles the true tale of Oakland As manager Billy Beane who transformed a struggling baseball team by adopting a complex statistics system based on computer-generated analysis to draft his players. I'm English so I don't quite have a firm grip on how drafts work in any American sport but damned if I wasn't hooked by this trailer from the get-go - a classic under-dog sports movie that we have seen tale told a thousand times before but one I think like last year's The Fighter will show us that when these films are smartly made and they hit the right emotionality, they still can pack the right punch. To me this feels like the big audience pleasing Oscar contender that are usually there or there abouts come Awards time. I love how
Bennett Miller (Capote) has shot the movie, I love the colours, the tone and just how dramatic they have made a baseball coaching movie feel. Pitt fits the role of Billy Deane like a glove and it's his showcase movie essentially,
Jonah Hill makes me laugh by doing very little, and
Phillip Seymour Hoffman doesn't even have one line in the trailer but I'm desperate to see what he does here. The whole thing has a slight The Social Network feel to it, I think it might be the score but there's also the snappy dialogue from the script that was co-written by
Aaron Sorkin, Stan Chervin and
Steven Zaillian The movie is coming in September and I have a really good thing about this one. Looks damned good.