Steve Zaillian hired to spin the MONEYBALL script again!

The Playlist have posted a quite incredible story that Steve Zaillian (American Gangster), the original screenwriter on Columbia's sports drama Moneyball, has been re-hired to piece together a new draft before filming begins on July 12th. In other words - Zaillian's original replacement - Oscar winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men) and his multiples drafts (they say as many as five!!) have now been trashed, and Columbia are spending even more gold on bringing back the guy who's screenplay they decided not to go with in the first place. Incredible. What's even more astonishing is that this isn't the first time this has happened to Zaillian. Four years ago, he was paid a seven figure sum to re-write American Gangster for Ridley Scott, after initially being replaced by Antoine Fuqua. Essentially, Zaillian has been paid four times to write two movies. Moneyball then, finds Brad Pitt as Oakland A's manager Billy Beane who in 2003 transformed a struggling team by adopting a complex statistics system based on computer-generated analysis to draft his players. Jonah Hill plays Harvard grad assistant Paul DePodesta, with Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Wright Penn supporting. Bennett Miller directs his first movie since the excellent Capote.
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