Brad Pitt has already had one critically successful movie grace the big screen this year, in the form of The Tree of Life, but he is back later this month with Moneyball.
Directed by Bennett Miller the movie brings the story of Billy Beane to the big screen with Brad Pitt taking on the role.
There are already Oscar whispers surrounding the movie after huge critical success in America - could there be another Oscar nod for Pitt? It looks like a Best Picture nod could already be in the bag; the Academy love a true story!!!
Pitt is joined by an all star cast that includes Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright and Chris Pratt.
Now I have to admit that I love a great sporting movie that is a battle against the odds - and it looks like Moneyball is going to be exactly that.
Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A’s 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.
The onetime jock teams with Ivy League grad Peter Brand in an unlikely partnership, recruiting bargain players that the scouts call flawed, but all of whom have an ability to get on base, score runs, and win games.
It’s more than baseball, it’s a revolution - one that challenges old school traditions and puts Beane in the crosshairs of those who say he’s tearing out the heart and soul of the game
Moneyball is released 25th November.
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw
