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| 1st May, 2009 - 6:44 pm | ESPN - According to a post by Rob Neyer, Steven Soderbergh's film version of 'Moneyball' will be an attempt to raise the bar when it comes to sports movies.
"We have the dramatic building blocks, so the question is how real can we make the world?" the director asked while promoting his feature about a high-class escort, "The Girlfriend Experience." "My clearly stated goal is to set a new standard for realism in that [sports] world."
To that end, he'll be recreating the bowels of Oakland Coliseum - where the A's play - on a soundstage and filming at actual American League stadiums around the country. And since he has the cooperation of the MLB, "Moneyball" will also be able to use actual game footage from the 2002 season.
Soderbergh is also shooting for realism in his cast, which will be made up of both actors and the real-life participants. "Anybody who is not actively playing who was on the 2002 team has been approached," he said. "We've got about 60 percent of them. We have [manager] Art Howe, we've got Rick Peterson, the pitching coach. We've got three-quarters of the scouts who were there. ... The guys on the team we can't get - we're casting real people who can play and perform. We'll have the real footage and then we'll go to the close-up with our guy in it, and it should be seamless," the director explained. [READ] |
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