Despite word last month that (500) Days Of Summer director Marc Webb could be the man to take over Moneyball, it now appears that the other rumoured candidate - Capote megaphone-wielder Bennett Miller - has won the toss and will take the helm.
Moneyball is, of course, the baseball film which delves into the true life story of Oakland A's manager Billy Beane who, realising his budget was lower than many of his competition, ditched the traditional methods of picking players for a computerised system to great results.
Since the project's planned director, Steven Soderbergh, left over creative differences with the studio, Sony has been running its own simulations to lock down someone new.
With Miller in charge, chances are executives will shave the budget down again while keeping Pitt in the leading role.
And now comes the real challenge: selling a film about baseball outside of America, where it has much less of a fervent following. After all, it's just gussied-up rounders, right folks? Sorry, America…