Moneyball benched?
The AP reports that “Moneyball,” the film based on the popular Michael Lewis book, has been benched: Sony pulled the plug late last week after Steven Soderbergh turned in a rewritten script substantially different than an earlier draft by screenwriter Steven Zaillian (ZAY’-lee-uhn). That’s according to a source close to the production who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record. Read more here.
Zaillian, the SF State film grad who won an Oscar for his “Schindler’s List” screenplay, has scripted dozens of big screen successes. Was his “Moneyball” screenplay destined to be another home run? Check out the conversation on the Hollywood Elsewhere blog, where visitors are reading a PDF of the screenplay (supposedly Zaillian’s). We last spoke with Zaillian right before the release of “All the King’s Men.” For more on his career, click here.
In other writing/SF State-related news, alumnus Joshua Mohr is one of six new novelists discussing “what it takes to write and publish a debut” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers magazine. Mohr, the author of the much praised “Some Things That Meant the World to Me” (Two Dollar Radio, ‘09), advises emerging writers not to think too much. He tells P&W, “Just write…You’ll have plenty of time to overanalyze everything during the revision process.” For more, pick up the magazine on newstands now.
