Brad Pitt’s new baseball movie pulled

A baseball movie that was to star Brad Pitt and start filming in Phoenix this week has been put on hold.

Sources in Hollywood reportedly say that a dispute over the script is at the bottom of the “extremely rare” fate of Moneyball.

Moneyball tells the story of the Oakland Athletics team’s use of computer analysis to draft players. But it is reported that Columbia Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal can’t agree on the script, which was penned by director of the movie, Steven Soderbergh.

Soderbergh, best known for Sex, Lies, And Videotape, adapted his story from a non-fiction book by Michael Lewis about the Oakland Athletics and their general manager Billy Beane.

Pitt was to star as Beane alongside comedian Demetri Martin, while other roles were believed to be created for real-life ball players.

Soderbergh reportedly included some interviews with players that it was reported Pascal had not seen. She reportedly liked the book and allowed Soderbergh to shop the project to Warner Bros over the weekend.