'Moneyball' Trailer

For anyone who is both a baseball and movie buff like myself, it's more than likely you've heard of the long in-development adaptation of Michael M. Lewis's best-selling baseball novel, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game.

Moneyball is the story of how a once truly gifted baseball player, Billy Beane, becomes General Manager of the Oakland Athletics and turns them into a winner using a new-age data approach called sabermetrics, despite the team's small revenue.

I have read Moneyball and can vouch it is a great book and always hoped it would make for a hell of a movie.  After seeing this trailer, I don't need to hope anymore.  I know it will be.

Take a look for yourself below:

Columbia Pictures presents Moneyball, directed by Bennett Miller from a script by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. Opening in theaters on September 23, the drama stars Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Stephen Bishop, Kathyrn Morris and Chris Pratt.

Based on a true story, Moneyball is a movie for anybody who has ever dreamed of taking on the system. Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's and the guy who assembles the team, who has an epiphany: all of baseball's conventional wisdom is wrong. Forced to reinvent his team on a tight budget, Beane will have to outsmart the richer clubs. The onetime jock teams with Ivy League grad Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) in an unlikely partnership, recruiting bargain players that the scouts call flawed, but all of whom have an ability to get on base, score runs, and win games. It's more than baseball, it's a revolution – one that challenges old school traditions and puts Beane in the crosshairs of those who say he's tearing out the heart and soul of the game.