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To use a baseball term: insiders balked at the fact that Sony Pictures canceled the big screen adaption of Moneyball only days before it was scheduled to start shooting this month.

But it now seems that the Brad Pitt project will get off the ground, after all.

The studio has asked The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin to pen a quick re-write on a script that Sony had originally deemed too arty and documentary-like in approach, according to The New York Times.

Moneyball is based on Michael Lewis' real-life account of the Oakland Athletics and their general manager Billy Beane, respected throughout the game for assembling a competitive Major League team despite a small payroll.

Pitt will portray Beane.

Paramount Pictures had recently won the right to make a movie adaptation out of the new Leanne Shapton book, Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry.  Let's just call it Artifacts instead.

The book is told in the form of a estate auction catalog with 325 entries and photographs that describe the events and lives of a four year relationship between Hal Morris, a photographer, and Lenore Doolan, a food columnist.

According to Variety, the project will be developed as a romantic comedy and star Pitt as Morris and Natalie Portman as Doolan.

Clint Eastwood finally brought down man's best friend.

Following two straight weeks of ruling at the box office, Marley & Me was finally bumped down by Gran Torino and a pair of other new releases. Here's the complete top five from the weekend:

1. Gran Torino: $29 million
2. Bride Wars: $21.5 million
3. The Unborn: $21 million
4. Marley & Me: $11.3 million
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: $9.4 million

In Inglorious Basterds, Brad Pitt stars as Lt. Aldo Raine.

Here's a shot of the actor, as he takes on the role of the leader of a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds." They are chosen to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis...

According to Variety, director James Gray (We Own the Night ) has agreed to direct The Lost City of Z, a big screen adaption of the David Grann by the same name.

Look for Brad Pitt to star in the film as British soldier and spy Percy Fawcett.

The character left Victorian society to explore in the Amazon, where he became obsessed by the idea of an advanced civilization he called Z. He believed it existed in the depths of the jungle.

Along with his son, Fawcett headed into the jungle in 1925 in search of Z... and was never seen again.

Pitt stars in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (which opens on Christmas) and then will play a key role in Inglorious Basterds.

We already know how Brad Pitt looks as the lead in Inglorious Basterds.

But can you imagine the star donning the outfit of A's General Manager Billy Beane?

According to Variety, Pitt is being considered for the lead in a big screen adaption of Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. The film will be based on Michael Lewis’ non-fiction book.

Lewis’ book centers around Beane, a front office employee that faced the difficult task of trying to assemble a major league team with one of the smallest budgets in baseball.

Considering the methods used and the focus on statistics, it's seems like a difficult movie to adapt.

Brad Pitt is at the center of Quentin Tarantino's next movie, Inglorious Basterds. The actor takes on the role of Aldo Raine.

Here’s what Tarantino.info had to say about the character:

“Let me introduce you to the principal Basterd, the head honcho Basterd, most Inglourious of all Basterds, Lt. Aldo Raine. We’ve got a first look at Brad Pitt in full resistance fighter gear for you… This is a hillbilly straight from the mountains of Tennessee, a man with a scar around his neck that “will never once be mentioned,” this is Brad Pitt in one hundred percent Quentin Tarantino Nazi-scalping business.”

It's one thing to imagine Brad Pitt as a Greek hero - he plays Achilles in 2004's Troy - but as a Greek hero... in space?

According to Variety, the actor is in negotiations to portray Odysseus in an adaption of The Odyssey; and, yes, the film would be situated in outer space.

For those that slept through high school English, Odysseus hatched the plan to build the Trojan Horse. The Odyssey is centered around his journey home after be decides not to become a god.

Currently, Pitt is filming Inglourious Basterds in Germany. His next flick, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, opens this Christmas.

Brad Pitt's reps have confirmed that the actor is in talks for Inglorious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino's WWII drama.

Previously, rumors have been floating around that Brad Pitt was up for the role of Aldo Raine and that Leonardo DiCaprio would be up for the Nazi Hans Landa. However, according to EW, the Brad Pitt rumor is true, while the DiCaprio one is false.

With Tarantino finally signing with Universal Studios and now signing up his stars, shooting should be on time to begin in the fall in Germany and France.