By Lee Pfeiffer
In a virtually unprecedented move in the modern film industry, Sony canceled the Brad Pitt/Steven Soderbergh baseball flick
Moneyball last month just days before filming was to commence. The action set industry tongues wagging. If these two Hollywood heavyweights weren't invulnerable to having their projects re-evaluated, who was? The action on the part of Sony, which felt Soderbergh's rewrites of the script made the concept too uncommercial, illustrates that star power isn't what it once was in Tinsel Town. Given the fact that millions has been spent on developing
Moneyball, Sony is trying to make lemonade out of lemon. They have hired writer Aaron Sorkin to come on board and rework the script. They are also wooing producer Scott Rudin to join the project. While the retooled team may enable Sony to get
Moneyball before the cameras in the fall, one would presume that Steven Soderbergh can't be too happy about the loss of creative control. For more
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