Published 6/22/2009
by Alissa R
at Usmagazine.com
Looks like Brad Pitt will be spending more time with the kids.
Days before he was supposed to begin filming this week in Phoenix, Ariz., his Steven Soderbergh -directed baseball drama Moneyball has been put on hold.
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According to the Hollywood Reporter , Columbia studio co-chairman Amy Pascal "wasn't comfortable with the script," which had already undergone several changes since the movie was greenlit.
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The studio had given Soderbergh a short time to finalize a new deal, including the opportunity to try to settle with another studio. But over the weekend, he managed to secure a new deal with Columbia.
The studio will now re-assess what to do with the movie.
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Soderbergh wrote the screenplay, which was adapted from Michael Lewis' nonfiction book about the Oakland Athletics and their GM Billy Beane.
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