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Report: Pitt to star in 'Moneyball' movie

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You know you've got a tough life when you're portrayed in a movie by an actor voted the sexiest man alive. Twice. Brad Pitt is his name, and playing Billy Beane is his game, according to Variety, the Hollywood entertainment newspaper, which reported that a project is "being developed" for Pitt to play Beane in a movie based on "Moneyball," the book about Beane's distinct methods of running the A's in the 2002 season. "Apparently, Larry Baer wasn't available," Beane said in a phone interview Friday, needling the Giants team president. The rights to the best-selling book were purchased by Columbia Pictures in 2004. At the time, "Moneyball" author Michael Lewis suggested Beane's role should be played by George Clooney, partly because both have a "certain Teflon quality." For now, Pitt seems to be the guy.

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October 18, 2008  11:21 AM ET
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I was thinking Rowan Atkinson, who did play Mr Bean in the movies!

October 18, 2008  12:48 PM ET
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Gay.

October 18, 2008  12:55 PM ET
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Gay.

and I thought T&R had sunk as far as it could with BS threads, apparently not........

October 18, 2008  01:19 PM ET
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No doubt. I love the book, but I even think it's gay to make a movie out of it. Having Pitt as Billy Beane is gay, too. Hollywood sucks balls a lot. They latch on to things of substance, rape and soil them.

October 19, 2008  12:14 AM ET
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a baseball movie WITHOUT kevin costner as the lead?!?!?!? How DARE they!!!

October 19, 2008  12:16 AM ET
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vin diesel as j.p. ricciardi

October 19, 2008  12:16 AM ET
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michael moore as jeremy brown

October 19, 2008  12:16 AM ET
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chris rock as kenny williams

October 19, 2008  12:17 AM ET
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no, even better, dave chapelle

October 19, 2008  12:24 AM ET
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jon malkovitch as art howe

 
October 19, 2008  05:05 AM ET
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In order to add the necessary romance and sexual tension, Angelina Jolie will play the evil Joe Morgan who ends up falling for Big Bill in the dramatic final scene.

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