Aaron Sorkin Enlisted To Perform Rewrite-CPR on Flatlining Moneyball

I wish Sarah Palin was around right now to provide a fitting baseball metaphor for what's happening to Moneyball, but she's out clubbing seals with the kids, so we'll just lay this on you straight-up. Sony has breathed new life into the Steven Soderbergh/Brad Pitt project that was all but left for dead after Amy Pascal pulled the plug, due to "being surprised at how different the script we just spent millions of dollars developing was from the one dancing around in my brain," or something to that effect.

Of course, there was the lingering matter of MLB not having signed off on the Oakland As story -- but staying true to her word that she was still committed to the project if Pitt were to stay on board and it were to hew closer to Steve Zaillian's original script, Pascal brought on second-draft miracle-worker (and One-Page Screenplay Holy Grail) Aaron Sorkin to retool the project into something workable.

This would be Sorkin's first project after turning the Facebook creation myth into The Social Network -- a compelling game of Ivy League hubris and one-upmanship that David Fincher will direct. If he can make something sexy out of dorm room coding, could he work similar alchemy with baseball stats revisionism? Sony is counting on it. (And we're serious about that One-Page Screenplay, Sorky. Call us.)

· Aaron Sorkin game for 'Moneyball' [THR]